Medical Services, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Medical Services, Vol. 1: Diseases of the War The chapters of the volumes on the Diseases of the War have been prepared by officers who held regular, territorial force or temporary commissions in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and who had special knowledge and personal experience of the diseases about which they write. The material contained in official documents, supplemented by the numerous references appended to each chapter, has been at their disposal. In the present volume a considerable amount of repetition will be found, notably in the chapters on in¿uenza and purulent bronchitis, consequent upon these diseases having been considered from two separate standpoints, namely, the experience of the epidemic amongst the troops in France and the experience of the epidemic in the United Kingdom. The second volume will contain chapters on nervous disorders, venereal and skin diseases, in addition to chapters on the medical aspects of aviation, gas warfare, and mine gas poisoning. Although these latter subjects have a wider significance than that of actual disease and might of themselves have formed a separate volume, it has been found convenient to introduce them into the volumes on the Diseases of the War. The measures for preventing disease, and the methods and results of laboratory research are fully detailed. In the volumes which will be published separately on Hygiene and Pathology during the War, and reference must be made to them for fuller information on these subjects. But it has been considered advisable to introduce a certain amount of detail with regard to preventive treatment and pathology into the present volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.