The Army Medical Department 1865-1917

Description:

The third in a four-volume work that covers the history of the Army Medical Department from 1775 to 1941, this volume traces the development of the department from its rebirth as a small, scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, up to the entrance of the United States into World War I.A time of revolutionary change both in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine, the period climaxed with the golden age of Army medicine, when U.S. medical officers played a leading role in research that developed new and effective weapons in the war against epidemic disease. --Foreword.

subjects: Heer,  World War, 1914-1918,  Geschichte 1865-1917,  USA,  United States,  Military Medicine,  United States. Army Medical Department,  Medical care,  Medical Department,  War,  History,  United States. Army. Medical Department,  United States Government Agencies,  History, 20th Century,  History, 19th Century,  Warfare,  United States. Army Medical Department (1968- )