Handbook of the Hospital Corps, United States Navy, 1939
By: Published by the Bureau of medicine and surgery under the authority of the secretary of the navy.
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1015
Subjects: United States. -- Navy -- Sanitary affairs; United States. -- Navy. -- Hospital Corps; Medicine, Naval
Notes: "The Handbook o the Hospital corps, United States navy, 1939, is a revised edition  of the former Handbook of the Hospital  corps, United States navy, 1930."pt. ii.

Includes "References."
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS  Page; title: Foreword v; title: Chapter I. History of the Hospital Corps 1; title: II. Anatomy and Physiology 5; title: III. Section 1. Minor Surgery and First Aid 85; title: Section 2. Bandages and Bandaging 131; title: Section 3. Splints and Appliances 148; title: Section 4. Emergency Dental Treatment 165; title: IV. Section 1. Materia Medica and Therapeutics 177; title: Section 2. Toxicology 257; title: V. Section 1. Nursing 271; title: Section 2. Ward Management 344; title: Section 3. Operating Room and Surgical Technique 356; title: VI. Section 1. Hygiene and Sanitation 371; title: Section 2. Allergy 469; title: Section 3. Genito-urinary and Venereal Diseases 490; title: Section 4. Prevention op Venereal Diseases 511; title: Section 5. Industrial Medicine and Industrial Hazards. 514; title: Section 6. Field Sanitation 521; title: Section 7. Duty With Marine Corps Expeditionary Forces 564; title: Section 8. Landing Force 570; title: Section 9. Shore Patrol 574; title: VII. Diets and Messing for the Sick 579; title: VIII. Pharmacy 599; title: IX. Chemistry 643; title: X. Anaesthesia 735; title: XI. Section 1. Administration and General Clerical Procedures 749; title: Section 2. Hospital Supplies and Property Accountability 774; title: Section 3. Commissary Supervision 804; title: Section 4. Deaths and Medico-Legal Matters 833; title: XII. Hospital Corps Technical Specialties.; title: Section 1. Aviation Medicine 847; title: Section 2. Basal Metabolism 849; title: Section 3. Blood Grouping and Matching 856; title: Section 4. Chemical Warfare 862; title: Section 5. Diving and Submarine Duty 872; title: Section 6. Electrocardiography 879; title: Section 7. Embalming 882; title: Section 8. Independent Duty 887; title: Section 9. Laboratory Procedures and Technique 889; title: Section 10. Physical Therapy 917; title: Section 11. Recruiting 936; title: Section 12. X-ray 940; title: Index 969