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Between Flesh and Steel

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by Richard A. Gabriel


  Messines, battle of, 217

  Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, 52

  Metz, France, 110

  Metz, battle of, 145

  Metz, siege of, 59, 60

  Meuse-Argonne offensive, 227

  Mexican War, 148

  Mexican War of 1846–1848, 32, 131, 134, 148, 153, 161, 162

  Mi-24 Hind helicopter, 246

  Mi-8MB (Bisector) helicopter, 249

  micro-bleeding, 261

  microphotography, 174, 176

  microbes, 137

  microscope, 66, 137–40, 174

  Middle Ages, 1, 29, 33, 41, 44, 51, 53, 54, 65, 71, 78, 80, 88, 99, 123, 153; armies of, 1–3

  migratory genocide, 246

  military hospitals, 56, 83, 95, 114, 117, 141

  military hygiene, 48, 105, 110, 204, 207

  military medical officers, 132

  military medical schools, 90, 123, 141

  military pharmacy, 48

  military psychiatry, 213, 227, 261; invention of, 76–79

  military physician, 147, 129, 266

  military sanitation, 59, 185

  military surgeon, 34, 78, 77, 92, 93, 116, 117, 118, 147

  mines, 16

  Minié, Capt. Claude-Etienne, 152

  Ministry of War, 112

  Mirror of Anatomy, 46

  Mississippi River, 170

  Mitchell, Silas Weir, 167

  mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), 233, 234, 235

  mobile artillery, 10, 92

  mobile field hospitals, 95, 109

  mobile laboratories, 228

  mobile siege gun, 3

  mobile surgical teams, 228

  mobile surgical field hospitals, 171

  modern warfare: beginnings, 8–18; casualties and lethality, 28–38; emergence of, 1–3; gunpowder revolution, 3–8; twentieth century war, 18–24; twenty-first century, 24–28

  Mogadishu, battle of, 255–58

  Moldova, 245, 253

  monasteries, 43, 58; monastic orders, 59

  monocoque construction, 18

  monoplane, 22

  Monro, Alexander, I, 89, 94, 95

  Mons, 222

  Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 96

  Montpelier, France, 112

  Moore, Surgeon General Samuel, 173, 175

  morbid anatomy, 89

  Moreau, Gen. Jean-Victor, 144

  Morel, Etienne, 78

  Morgan, John, 122

  morphine sulfate, 167, 258

  Morton, William T. G., 134

  Mosby, John Singleton, 12

  Moscow, Russia, 178

  mosquito netting, 209

  mounted knights, 2

  Mower General Hospital, 173

  mujahideen, 247, 253

  Mukden, Manchuria, 207; battle of, 210; siege of, 202

  mules, 224

  mummy dust, 75

  musket, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 48, 73, 75; musket ball, 49, 73, 75, 76; musketeer, 4–7

  Muslims, 71, 247; armies of, 44

  Mussolini, Benito, 20, 21

  mustard gas, 19

  muzzle-brake, 23

  muzzle-loading cannon, 181

  Nagasaki, Japan, 24

  Naples, Italy, 57

  Napoleon, 15, 13, 14, 19, 25, 112, 141, 145, 146, 152, 178; armies of, 11, 74

  Napoleon III, 158

  Napoleonic Wars, 29, 32, 51, 110, 140, 131, 132 181; Aboukir, battle of, 146; Austerlitz, battle of, 146; Austrian campaign, 146; Egyptian campaign, 141; Peninsular campaign, 147; Russian campaign; Spanish campaign, 244

  nasopharyngeal airway, 256

  nation in arms, 11, 19

  nation states, 4, 9, 41, 83, 90, 122

  national armies, 41, 60

  National Assembly, 112

  National Convention, 112

  National Sanitation Bureau, 204

  naval medicine, 99–104; naval physicians, 99, 101; naval surgeons, 97, 99, 104, 135

  Nazification, 232

  Nebelwerfer, 23

  necessary suppuration of wounds, 50, 51, 143

  necrotic damage, 257; tissues, 142

  needle thoracostomy, 256

  Nelson, Lord Horatio, 102; Nelson’s blood, 102

  nervous diseases, 177

  neurasthenia, 214

  neurological profession, 177

  neurologists, 177, 213, 261

  neurology, 177, 179

  neurosurgeon, 249

  New Model Army, 83

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 65, 66; Newtonian induction method, 87, 88

  Nieuport fighter, 18

  Nightingale, Florence, 153, 155

  nineteenth century, medicine 129–33;

  Amputation, 135–37; Anesthesia, 133–35; bacteriology and microscope, 137–40; British medicine, 147–50; flying ambulances, 143–47; military psychiatry, 176–79

  nineteenth century, wars: American Civil War, 162–76; Crimean War, 152–53; England, 153–57; France, 157–60; Franco-Prussian War, 179–85; Mexican War, 161–62; Napoleonic wars, 140–43; Russia, 160–61; Waterloo, battle of, 150–52

  nitrous oxide, 133, 134

  non-penetrating head wound, 76

  noninfectious disease, 205

  Normandy Invasion, 230

  Northern Ireland, 34; Troubles in, 35

  nostalgia, 177, 178

  nuclear: artillery shells, 24; reactors, 25; torpedoes, 24; weapons, tactical, 24, 25

  nuclear-powered guided-missile frigate, 25

  nurses, 172, 118, 153, 170, 173, 176, 205, 206, 211, 233, 225, 247, 259; African American, 171; anesthetists, 249, 259; matron, 118; naval nurses, 171; surgical nurses, 249

  O’Halloran, Sylvester, 94

  Observations on the Diseases of the Army, 105

  Observations on the Diseases of Seamen, 103

  Odyssey, 99

  Ohio River, 170

  oil of roses, 53

  oil of vipers, 75

  122mm gun, 23

  operating gowns, 139

  operating rooms, 180

  ophthalmia, 141

  opiates, 253

  opium, 75, 78, 102, 133, 167; pills, 167

  Ordnance Department, 154

  orthopedics, 173, 217; orthopedic surgeon, 259

  Ostend, Belgium, 151

  Ottoman Turks, 41, 44; armies of, 3; empire of, 96

  ox trek wagons, 196

  Oxford Philosophical Society of England, 69

  oxygen concentrator, 260

  P-59 Aircomet, 24

  Pacific theater (WW II), 238

  pack howitzer, 19

  paddlewheels, 16

  painted face masks, 218

  Pakistan, 246, 247

  palm juice, 75

  Panama, 245

  panoramic sights, 15

  Panzerfaust, 22

  paper cartridge, 5, 73

  Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus, 50, 52

  paratyphoid, 227

  paratyphus, 250

  Paré, Ambroise, 46, 47, 50–53, 77

  paregoric, 167

  Paris, France, 112, 134, 147; Paris Revolt of 1848, 135

  Paris Medical Faculty, 48

  Pashtun, 247

  Passchendaele, battle of, 217

  Pasteur, Louis, 137, 138, 176, 204

  Pasteur Institute, 228

  pathology, 89

  pavilion-style hospital, 173, 176, 206

  Pavlovna, Elena, 153

  pediculosis, 72

  penetrating head wounds, 94

  penicillin, 230, 232, 233

  Peninsula campaign, 147, 169

  Peninsular War, 149, 150, 152, 154, 211

  pension system, 176

  People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, 246

  Pépinière, 115, 181

  percussion cap, 5

  Percy, Baron Pierre-François, 135, 141–43; Percy’s Wurst, 144

  periscope, 17

  permanent military hospitals, 61

  Perpignan, France, 81

  Perry, Adm. Matthew, 201


  Peter the Great, 69, 115, 116

  Petersburg Admiralty Hospital, 117

  Petit, Jean-Louis, 53, 78

  pharmacist, 247

  Pharmacopoeia for Use of Army Hospitals, 122

  Philippine Insurrection, 32

  physician’s assistant, 247

  Physick, Philip, 136

  physiological chemistry, 66, 67

  pickling solution, 100

  PIE (proximity, immediacy, and expectancy), 215

  pike, 3, 10; pikemen, 4, 6

  Pirogov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 153, 160, 161

  pistol, 48

  plague, 24, 219, 250

  Plague Commission, 200

  Plain, Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures, 121

  plasma, 230, 258

  plaster of Paris, 161, 167

  plastic surgery, 174, 218

  platelets, 258

  Plymouth colony, 122

  pneumonia, 96, 227, 250

  pocket compendiums of anatomy, 46

  Pope, Elijah, 134

  Pope Julius II, 50

  Port Arthur, 211, 212; siege of, 202, 203

  portable firearms, 4

  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 261

  postmortem investigation, 89

  Postnikoff, Peter V., 69

  postoperative infection, 138

  potable water, 115, 212

  potassium permanganate, 167

  Pott, Percival, 94

  Pouteau, Claude, 94

  powdered mummy’s flesh, 74

  powdered sandalwood, 75

  Prague, Czeck Repblic, 70

  Pravaz, Charles, 136

  precision-guided munitions, 266, 267

  pressure dressing, 166

  pressure sponges, 93

  preventive medicine teams, 251

  Priestley, Joseph, 133

  primary amputation, 135, 142, 151, 176

  Principia Mathematica, 65

  principle of expectancy, 215

  principle of forward treatment, 213

  principle of immediacy, 215

  principle of proximity, 213, 215

  Principles of General Military Field Surgery, 161

  Pringle, John, 94, 95, 105

  printing press, 45

  professional armies, 10

  professional medical journals, 69

  Progress in Medicine, 69

  prosthesis, 77, 102, 135

  prosthetic limbs, 217, 261

  Protectorate, 81

  Protestant Reformation, 43

  Prussia, 79, 82, 89, 91, 95, 97, 112, 113, 150

  Prussian Army, 83, 113, 182; medical service, 113; military medicine, 115

  Prussian Dreyse needlegun, 13

  psychiatric: casualties, 177, 212, 215, 225; debilitation, 179; examinations, 225; hospital, 214; screening, 178, 179

  Psychiatric Institute, 260

  psychiatrists, 213

  psychologists, 213

  psychosis, 178

  public sanitation, 133

  Puli-Khumri, Afghanistan, 248

  pumpkins, 101

  Purmann, Matthaeus, 72

  pus, 74, 77

  putrefaction, 137

  putrid fever, 96

  Pyhrric victory, 269

  quarantine, 101, 103, 204

  Queen Victoria, 135

  Queen Elizabeth I, 59

  quinine, 103, 136, 167, 175

  quinquereme, 99

  radar, 24; detectors, 23; transceiver, 23

  radio communication, 18

  rag and bottle method, 134

  Raglan, Lord, 154

  railways, 13, 174, 170; corps, 183; officers, 14

  rain worm oil, 75

  Ramillies, France, 92

  Ramon, Gaston, 228

  rations, 92

  Ravaton, Hughes, 78, 95, 105

  rear hospitals, 107, 183

  recoil mechanisms, 12

  Recommendations of Inoculation According to Baron Dimsdale’s Methods, 122

  reconstructive surgery, 218

  red cells, 258, 260

  Red Army, 21

  Red Cross, 159, 171, 175, 201, 205

  Red Rover, USS, 171

  Reed, Walter, 137

  regimental aid stations, 159

  regimental collecting stations, 233

  regimental hospital, 108, 111, 151, 162, 171

  regimental surgeons, 107, 108, 111, 113, 116, 118, 205

  regular medical examinations, 91

  regulation uniforms, 100

  Regulations for the Order and Discipline of Troops of the U.S., 122

  remittent typhoid fever, 95, 220

  Renaissance, 41, 42, 45, 68, 71, 73, 74, 82, 83, 90; armies of, 54–58; medical challenges, 41–46, 48–53; reappearance of military surgeon, 46–48; medicine in renaissance armies, 53–61

  renal insufficiency, 235

  Renault FT tank, 20

  respiration, 67

  respiratory illness, 95

  Restoration, 71, 157

  retractors, 216

  Reval, Estonia, 117

  Revolution of 1848, 157

  Revolutionary War, 36, 121, 122

  revolving turret, 20, 22

  Reyer, K. K., 142

  rheumatism, 100, 250

  rheumatologist, 249

  rhubarb, 75

  Richmond, Virginia, 173

  rifled breech loading artillery, 12, 15

  rifled cannon, 6, 8

  rifleman, 4, 5

  rifling, 6, 12

  Rio Grande River, 175

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 140

  rocket artillery, 23

  Roentgen, Konrad, 199

  Romans, 76

  Romanov Dynasty, 69

  Roman Army, 58

  Roman ballista, 8

  Roman Empire, 2, 132

  Roman medicine, 44; medical texts, 44; medical service, 51

  Roman notion of preventive medicine, 59

  Roman Navy, 99

  Rome, Italy, 3, 44, 69, 268

  Kronstadt naval base, Russia, 117

  Röntgen, Wilhelm, 136

  Roussel, J. 217; “transfuseur” apparatus, 217

  Royal Army Medical Corps, 157

  Royal College of Surgeons of London, 134

  Royal Society of London, 69

  Royal Styptic, 77

  RPG, 247

  rubber bulb syringe, 217

  rubber gloves, 139, 209

  rubberized taffeta, 143

  Rush, Benjamin, 122

  Russell, Maj. Frederick F., 200

  Russia, 20, 42, 69, 89, 115, 117, 132, 180, 202, 215, 222; army of, 152, 153, 160, 212, 213, 214, 220; imperial army, 202, 203; military medicine, 69

  Russian Fourteenth Army, 253

  Russian Ministry of Defense, 254

  Russian Red Cross, 213

  Russo-Japanese War, 15, 117, 177, 194, 201–10, 213–16, 251

  Russo-Turkish War, 15, 142

  saber, 4

  sabot round, 22

  Salmon, Thomas, 227

  salmonella, 251

  salted meat, 101

  Sanctorius, Santorio, 67

  sand filtration, 201

  sanitary disease hospitals, 195

  sanitary detachments, 206, 223

  sanitary regulations, 154, 199

  sanitary sections, 228

  sanitäts kompanie, 231

  Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 148

  Sarajevo, Bosnia, 19, 185

  Sardinian contingent, 152

  sarissae, 2

  Sasebo, Japan, 206

  sassafras, 75

  satellite communications, 28

  Saxony, 97

  scabies, 96

  scavenger teams, 224

  Schmidt, Joseph, 46

  scholastic approach to medicine, 44, 51; scholasticism, 67, 88

  schwerpunkt, 267

  science of vital statistics, 68

  scientific society, 68

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bsp; scorpion oil, 75

  Scotland, 117

  Scott, Gen. Winfield, 134

  Scottish Highlanders, 178

  Scotus, Caspar, 67

  screw propeller, 16

  screw tourniquet, 53, 78, 93

  Scultetus, Johannes, 68

  scurvy, 59, 101, 103, 168, 203, 212, 220

  Scutari, Turkey, 155; hospital, 153

  sea sponges, 166

  seaplane, 18

  secondary closure of wounds, 219

  secondary hemorrhage, 136

  secondary infection, 166

  secondary intention, 53, 198, 216

  Secret Academy, 68

  Sedan, battle of, 202

  self-inflicted wounds, 178, 212

  self-propelled artillery gun, 23

  Seminole War, 136

  Sendai, Nagano, 204

  Seneffe, battle of, 81

  sepsis, 198

  Service de Santé, 142

  Sevastopol, battle of, 160

  Seven Years War, 93, 96, 105, 106, 114

  seventeenth century, 65–71; amputations, 77–78; field hygiene, 78–79; military hospitals, 79–83; trends in military medicine, 71–73; wound treatment, 73–77

  75mm gun, 15

  Several Chirugicall Treatises, 72

  Sha-Ho, 211

  shanghaied, 101

  shell fragments, 77, 92

  shell shock, 214, 226, 261

  Sherman tank, 23

  Shibasaburö, Baron Kitasato, 204

  shigellosis, 250, 251

  Shiloh, battle of, 170

  Shindand, 248

  ship cockpit, 101

  ship convoy, 20

  shipboard surgery, 101

  shock, 52, 213, 214, 217, 229, 230, 235, 237, 256, 257, 259, 268

  shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile, 28

  shrapnel, 15, 102, 104, 197, 198, 216, 255, 258

  sick bay, 102, 104

  Sick and Wounded Board, 97

  siege cannon, 15

  siege mortars, 3, 4, 19

  Sieur, Inspector General Hercule, 140

  Sikorsky Bolshoi, 18

  Sisters of the Holy Cross, 174

  Sisters of St. Joseph, 174

  skin infections, 237

  sledges, 224

  slop-shop surgeons, 142

  sloped armored glacis, 23

  smallpox, 42, 71, 96, 97, 102, 118, 120, 159, 219, 220, 227; inoculation, 96, 175

  smart bombs, 266

  smokeless powder, 15, 216

  smoothbore cannon, 4, 15

  sniper fire, 254

  Snow, John, 135

  Société Royale de Médicine, 112

  Society for the Aid of Wounded Soldiers, 159

  sodium citrate, 218

  sodium hypochlorite, 167, 216

  sodium phosphate, 218

  soldier’s heart, 178

  Solferino, battle of, 158

  solid ball shot, 8

  Somalia, 245, 254

  Somme, battle of, 29, 217, 222

  Soubeiran, Eugène, 134

  South Africa, 194, 198

  Soviet-Afghan War, 245

  Soviet Army, 21, 248, 251; battle physicians, 51; medical system, 248

  Soviet Union, 20, 25, 245, 252

  Soviets, 231, 22, 246, 255

 

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