Medical Services, General History, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from Medical Services, General History, Vol. 4: Medical Services During the Operations on the Gallipoli Peninsula, In Macedonia, In Mesopotamia and North-West Persia, In East Africa, In the Aden Protectorate, and in North Russia, Ambulance Transport During the WarThe history of the medical services in each of the campaigns recorded in the volume presents special features for study. In the Dardanelles Campaign organized evacuation of Sick and wounded by sea, and the problems of sanitation on a very restricted and overcrowded area under hostile fire, were the all-important considerations. In Macedonia the dominant feature was warfare in mountainous country or in river valleys and ravines, the hot-beds of malaria. These required the organization of special ambulance transport for Sick and wounded over mountain tracks, and extensive measures for combating a disease that threatened to repeat, in the history of the campaign, the disaster of the Walcheren Expedition of 1809. In Mesopotamia the effects of extremes Of heat and cold, the organization of river and desert transport, the problems of disease prevention generally and a variety of administrative difficulties were prominent features. East Africa was typical of a campaign in a tropical and bush country with troops operating in columns over a vast area against an elusive and mobile enemy, and exposed to all kinds of tropical diseases. North Russia on the other hand was Of exceptional interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.