The Army Medical Department 1865-1917
Publisher: Center of Military History, United States Army
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D. C.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9789994162857
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.