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Between Flesh and Steel

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by Richard A. Gabriel

enteric fever, 219

  epidemics, 42, 66, 102, 120, 182

  epidemiological works, 72

  epilepsy, 179

  ergotism, 42

  ersatz kompanie, 232

  erysipelas antitoxin, 204

  Esmarch elastic bandage, 136, 183

  ether, 135, 161, 162, 166, 167

  etiology of disease, 184

  eugenics theories, 225

  Europe, 3, 4, 14, 19, 20, 42–46, 56, 69, 70, 75, 77, 82, 113, 121, 131, 147, 161, 180, 185, 194, 245, 255

  Eusol solution, 216

  evacuation hospital, 224, 226, 227, 236

  evacuation of psychiatric cases, 213

  evacuation syndrome, 213

  executioners, 72

  exhausted hearts, 178

  exploding artillery shot, 216

  Eylau, battle of, 142, 146

  Ezerski, General, 211

  Fabry, Wilhelm “Fabricius,” 72

  facial disfigurement, 262

  facial injuries, 174

  facial reconstruction, 174

  facial wounds, 218

  factory system, 11, 13

  fahnlein, 56

  Fallujah, Iraq, 255; second battle of, 258

  Faraday, Michael, 134

  fascist state, 20

  feigned insanity, 178

  feldlazarett, 231

  feldscher, 55, 160, 180, 210, 213

  femoral artery, 153, 35

  femoral fractures, 217, 229

  fentanyl, 258

  fermentation, 137

  Ferrara, Italy, 57

  feudal armies, 5, 6, 54, 60

  feudal social order, 1, 4, 8, 41

  fibrin, 218, 230

  field ambulances, 223, 228

  field artillery, 4, 8, 90

  field evacuation system, 210

  field hospital, 70, 83, 110, 112, 171, 176, 195, 196, 201, 205, 206, 208, 218, 224, 226, 227, 228, 236, 248

  field hygiene, 58, 78–79, 119, 208, 221, 199, 228, 251

  field latrines, 251

  field medical chest, 72, 75

  field sanitation, 252, 253

  field surgeons, 83

  field telephone, 15

  field transfusion units, 218, 230

  Fifth Motorized Rifle Division, 250

  Fifty Strange and Wonderful Cures for Gunshot Wounds, 72

  filth pharmacopoeia, 74

  Finland, 21

  firearms, 3, 6, 73, 83, 90, 92

  fire direction center, 26

  firelock musket, 4, 5, 7

  first aid kit, 219

  First Battle of Bull Run, 169

  fixed ammunition, 15

  flak jackets, 247

  Flanders, Belgium, 108, 178, 198, 201

  flash burns, 50

  flash pan, 5, 50

  Flemming, Alexander, 229

  flint, 5

  flintlock 5

  flogging, 100, 102

  Florence, Italy, 57

  Florey, Howard W., 229

  flush toilets, 251

  flying ambulance, 51, 143–47

  flying hospital, 106, 120

  flying machine, 17

  Fontenoy, battle of, 97

  Forrestal, USS, 25

  Fort Irwin, California, 26, 269

  Fort Henry, Tennessee, battle of, 170

  Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 168

  forward aid station, 229

  forward: surgery, 219; surgical stations, 216; surgical teams (FST), 228, 259

  forward treatment of psychiatric casualties, 214, 227

  France, 21, 44, 52, 68, 79, 80, 89, 91, 92, 100, 109, 110, 227, 139, 141, 157, 159, 160, 179, 182, 202, 224, 227

  Francis, Duke of Guise, 59, 60

  Franco-Prussian War, 6, 97, 131, 138, 139, 161, 179, 181, 182, 184, 195, 197, 213, 217, 219, 231

  Frederick the Great of Prussia, 7, 8, 92, 115, 181

  Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia, 92, 114

  Frederick Wilhelm Institute, 115, 181

  Fredericksburg, battle of, 170, 173

  French Academy of Sciences, 69

  French Army, 91, 144, 153, 154, 158, 221, 222

  French and Indian War, 117

  French Journal of Medicine, 69

  French military medical service, 112

  French Navy, 102

  French Republic, 112

  French Revolution, 111, 112, 113, 129, 131, 140, 181

  Freudian psychology, 261

  frontline hospitals, 216

  frostbite, 219

  frettage, 15

  Fuller, Samuel, 70

  fumigating ovens, 209

  Furious, HMS, 20

  Galen, 44, 46, 52, 67, 71

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 194

  gangrene, 166, 234; gas gangrene, 136, 216, 217

  gas: casualties, 226; masks, 225, 226; warfare, 226

  Gates, Gen. Horatio, 96

  Gatling gun, 12, 13

  GAU-8, 27

  Gehema, Janus Abraham, 73

  general hospital, 106, 108, 110, 111, 114, 146, 147, 150, 151, 155, 156, 162, 166, 170, 173, 176, 196, 228, 229

  General Hospital for the Insane, 179

  Geneva Convention, 159, 175

  Genoa, Italy, 99; Genoese Navy, 57

  George I of England, 91

  George Washington, USS, 25

  Georgia, 245, 253

  Gerlich gun, 22

  germ theory of infection, 153, 138, 204

  German Army, 139, 181, 215, 219

  German General Staff, 220

  German medical service, 231–33

  German officer corps, 232

  Germany, 14, 21, 42, 106, 131, 132, 134, 136, 139, 159, 178, 179, 180, 196, 202, 203, 220, 225

  Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 202

  Ghent, Belgium, 106, 151

  Glogau, Germany, 115

  Goercke, Johann, 181

  goniometer, 15

  Gorgas, William, 137

  Gospitali, 116, 117

  Goto, Masanao, 204

  Government Hospital for the Insane, 177

  graduate wonders, 232

  Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 169

  grapeshot, 8, 48

  Graunt, John, 68

  Graveyard of the German Army, 70

  Gray Ghost of the Confederacy, 12

  Great Northern War, 116

  great Richmond fire, 174

  Great Plague of London, 70

  Greece, 44, 45, 46, 268; Greek physicians, 69

  Grenada, 245

  grenade, 76, 197, 202, 206

  ground attack fighter, 23

  guided torpedo, 16

  Guild of Barbers in England, 48

  Guild of Surgeons, 48

  Guillemeau, Jacques, 78

  Gulf War, 254, 255, 257, 267

  gunpowder, 1, 4, 48, 50, 51, 53; revolution of, 3; weapons, 33, 51, 266

  gunshot wounds, 49–53; 74, 77, 105, 198

  Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 6, 5, 73, 81, 82

  Gutenberg Bible, 45

  Guthrie, George James, 135, 147–48, 151

  Guthrie, Samuel, 134

  gyrocompass, 17

  gyroscope, 17

  Hickman, Henry Hill, 134

  Hadrian, 99

  Haig, Gen.eral Douglas, 224

  halberdsmen, 2

  Hales, Stephen, 100

  Halifax, Lord, 100

  Hall, John, 156

  Halsted, William Steward, 136

  Hammond, Surgeon General William, 167, 169, 171, 175

  hand grenade, 7

  hand-washing basins, 209

  Harbin, Manchuria, 214

  hard biscuits, 101

  Hardy, Capt. Thomas, 102

  Hardy, J. D., 34

  harnessmaker’s silk, 136, 166

  Harvard College, 70, 172

  Harvey, William, 52, 66

  hauffen, 56

  hauptverbandplatz, 231

  head wounds, 92

  health certificates, 99

  heart disease, 250

  heart surgeon,
249

  heart ventricles, 66

  heat exhaustion, 209

  heat stroke, 212, 250, 255

  heimweh, 178

  helicopter, 234, 235, 236, 237, 258, 267

  Hellfire antitank missile, 27

  helmet, 75, 76, 83

  hemogram, 259

  hemorrhage, 258

  hemostatis, 135, 151, 166; hemostatic agents, 258; QuickClot, 258; HemCon, 258; Combat Gauze, 258; forceps, 216

  Henry IV of France, 80

  Henry VII of England, 56

  hepatitis A, 250

  high-mobility battlefield, 266

  high-velocity rifles, 198, 247

  Hind Mi-24, 27

  Hippocrates, 49

  Hiroshima, Japan, 24

  histology, 66

  Hobbes, Thomas, 87

  Hodgen, John, 167

  Hodges, Nathaniel, 70

  Hodgen splint, 167

  Holland, 45, 68, 97, 117

  Holland, USS, 17

  Home Hospital Reserve, 201

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr, 133

  Homer, 99

  Honeywell guns, 27

  horde tactics, 140

  horizontal rudder, 16

  Horrocks, Col. William, 202

  horse artillery, 4, 7

  horse cavalry, 8

  horse-drawn artillery, 38

  horsehair, 136, 166

  hospital cars, 170

  Hospital Conveyance Corps, 155

  hospital fever, 96

  hospital trains, 225

  hospital ships, 60, 99, 103, 170, 195, 206, 228, 236

  hospital wagons, 143

  hospitals: field, 77, 78, 80; military, 79–83; mobile, 80

  hot knife, 102

  Hôtel National des Invalides, 80

  howitzers, 8

  Hughes 30mm chain gun, 27

  human fat, 75

  humane weapons, 198

  Humvees, 259

  Hundred Years’ War, 2, 3

  Hungarian Disease, 70

  Hunter, John, 88, 89, 93, 105, 142

  Hustin, Albert, 218

  hydraulic recoil cylinders, 15

  hydrophone, 20

  hydroelectric gun stabilizing system, 23

  hygiene, 185; regulations, 110, 212

  hyoscyamus, 78

  hypnotic suggestions, 133, 136, 167, 216

  hysterial blindness, 214

  hysterical excitement, 214

  hysterical paralysis, 178, 179

  hysterical reactions, 226

  Iatrochemical School, 68

  Iatromathematical School, 68

  icons, 212

  Iliad, 33, 34, 37, 99

  immunization, 193, 200

  Imperial Courts-Martial, 56

  Imperial Guard, 146, 147, 158

  Imperial Japanese Army, 204

  Imperial Russian Army, 210

  impressment, 101, 147

  Indian houses, 162

  Industrial Revolution, 11, 13, 14, 131, 162

  infantry, 28

  infection, 1, 49, 50, 51, 77, 84, 94, 95, 107, 141, 153, 159, 166, 183, 198, 228

  infectious disease, 204, 205, 250, 251, 254; infectious disease hospital, 248, 253

  infectious hepatitis, 250, 251

  infectious ophthalmia, 142

  infirmiers, 146

  influenza, 42, 105, 211, 227; influenza epidemic of 1918, 219, 227

  infrared sensing system, 27

  inhalation injuries, 235

  Inkermann, battle of, 152

  inoculation, 97, 122, 152, 159

  insane of war, 118

  insanity, 178, 179

  intranasal ketamine, 259

  Instrumentarium Chirurgicum militare Austriacum, 90

  insurgency warfare, 245, 254

  interchangeability of parts, 14

  internal combustion engine, 8, 17

  International Congress of Military Medicine, 159

  interrupter gear, 20

  intestinal disease, 200

  intravenous injection, 67, 68; intravenous (IV) line, 256; intravenous saline infusions, 216; saline replacements, 217

  Introduction to General Military Surgery, 161

  invention of printing, 44

  Investigations into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases, 138

  iodine, 138

  ipecac, 167

  Iran, 246

  Iraq, 36, 165, 245, 255–59, 260, 262, 267, 268; military medical service, 268

  Iraqi-U.S. conflict, 268

  iron plating, 16

  iron ramrod, 7

  iron ships, 13, 16, 104

  Israeli-Arab War, 268

  Israeli Defense Force, 34

  Israeli-PLO War, 34

  Istanbul, Turkey, 153

  Italy, 20, 21, 44, 45, 57, 100, 131, 158

  IV bottle, 257

  Ivan III of Russia, 69

  Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 175

  jail fever, 96, 120

  James I of England, 75

  Jameson, Horatio, 136

  Japan, 21, 201, 202, 204, 207, 215; Japanese army, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 215; navy, 206

  Japanese Imperial University, 203

  Japanese Red Cross, 205

  Jenner, Edward, 96

  Jesuits, 80

  jet-powered aircraft, 24

  Jones, Sir Robert, 217

  Jones, John, 121

  Josephinum, 115

  Journal de médecine militaire, 110

  Kabul, Afghanistan, 246, 248

  Kaga, 22

  Kandahar, Afghanistan, 248

  Kangaroo, HMS, 155

  kaolin, 258

  Katherine the Great, 69

  Katyusha, 23

  Keen, William W., 166

  Kentucky rifle, 6

  Kevlar flak jacket, 257

  Kilmainham, 81

  Kimpton-Brown waxed tubes, 218

  King’s College, 121

  Kircher, Athanasius, 66

  Klebs, Edwin, 138, 139

  Koch, Robert, 138, 139, 204

  Kunduz, 248

  Korea, 34, 165, 238, 255, 267

  Korean War, 233, 258

  kriegslazarett, 231

  Krupp “Big Bertha” howitzer, 15

  Kure, Japan, 206

  La Rochelle, siege of, 80

  Laennec, René, 136

  Lancet, The, 139

  landing zone, 236

  Landsknechte, 56, 57, 82

  Landsteiner, Karl, 218

  Larrey, Dominique-Jean, 51, 74, 135, 142–46, 151, 154, 169

  Lasaer, Jesse, 137

  latrines, 209

  laudable pus, 49–50

  laudanum, 167

  laughing gas, 133

  Laupen, Battle of, 2, 3, 54

  Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 161

  Lawson, Surgeon General Thomas, 168, 169

  le Prestre, Sébastien, Marquis de Vauban, 81

  lead poisoning, 42

  lead shot, 49

  leather sutures, 77

  Leclerc, Gen. Charles-Victor-Emmanuel, 148

  LeClerc, Daniel, 68

  Lee, Gen. Robert E., 175

  Lee-Enfield rifle, 13

  Lenin, Vladimir, 245

  leprosy, 71

  lethality, 32–35

  Letterman, Jonathan, 169, 182, 208; ambulance service, 169–71

  letters of credit, 9

  lever action rifle, 6

  Lexington, USS, 22

  Leyden, Germany, 117

  Liao-tung Peninsula, Manchuria, 209

  Liaoyang, battle of, 202

  Library of the Surgeon General’s Office of the Army, 175–76

  Libya, 18

  lice, 212

  ligation, 234

  ligature, 53, 77, 78, 83, 132, 135, 136, 166

  Lille, Belgium, 110

  limb immobilization, 229

  limb transplantation, 262

  lime juice, 101

  Lind, James, 101, 103, 104

 
linear tactics, 6, 32, 266

  linear combat formations, 10

  Lister, Joseph, 95, 136–39, 167, 176, 180, 182, 204; methods of, 220

  Liston, Sir Robert, 133, 134, 135

  litter bearers, 110, 144, 147, 150, 154, 159, 169, 181, 201, 220, 206, 222, 224, 231

  litter-jeep, 233

  Little, Nathan, 167

  local paralysis, 214

  locomotive torpedo, 16

  Londinius, N., 99

  London, England, 134

  Long, Crawford, 134

  Long Island, battle of, 119

  Longmore, Sir Thomas, 135

  longbows, 2

  Lorenz rifle, 182

  Louis IX of France, 58

  Louis XIV of France, 77, 109

  Louis XIII of France, 80

  Louis XVI of France, 143

  Lovell, Joseph, 162

  Low-profile hull, 22

  Lyster bag, 227

  M-110 gun, 26

  M-163 Vulcan cannon, 26

  M-2 90mm gun, 23

  M-77 explosive rounds, 26

  Macedonian phalanx, 2

  Machaon, 99

  machine gun, 12, 14, 18, 224, 247; machine gun war, 13, 19

  MacLeod, George H. B., 34, 135

  magazine-fed infantry rifle, 6

  Magi, Bartolommeo, 53

  Mainz, Germany, 45

  Maison Royale de la Charité Chrétienne, 58, 80

  Maizuru, Japan, 206

  mal du pays, 178

  malaria, 95, 103, 204, 219, 227, 237, 250, 252, 253; malaria fever, 137

  Male Accident Ward at London Hospital, 137, 138

  Malpighi, Marcello, 66

  Maltese carts, 196

  manured soil, 219

  marching column, 29

  Mark IV tank, 20

  Marshall, Henry, 151

  mass casualties, 176

  mass production, 11–14

  Massachusetts Bay Colony, 117, 118

  matchlock, 5

  Mathijsen, Antonius, 161

  Maurice of Nassau, 72

  Mauser rifle, 13

  maxillo-facial injuries, 218

  Maxim, Hiram, 13

  Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, 56, 82

  Maximilien, Duke of Sully, 80

  Mayflower, 70

  McClellan, Gen. George B., 168, 175

  McGrigor, James, 148, 149, 151, 153

  measles, 42

  medevac helicopters, 236, 259; crews, 237

  Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 176

  medical: barges, 225; cards, 183; chests, 83, 118; dictionary, 68; discharge, 105; education, 90; humanists, 45; journals, 91; laboratories, 182; microscopy, 66; periodical literature, 69; publishing, 46, 89; record system, 176; regulating officer (MRO), 236; service corps, 194; treatment detachments, 254; wagons, 144

  Medical Staff Corps, 157

  Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen, 103

  Medicina Curiosa, 69

  Medical Observations in Hungarian Camps, 72

  Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire et Campagnes, 142

  meningitis, 250

  mental asylums, 177

  mental collapse, 176, 213

  mercurial fumigation, 71

  mercurous chloride, 167

  mercury, 75

  Messerschmitt Me-262, 24

 

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