1918 U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, Air Service, Division of Military Aeronautics; WILMER, William Holland (1863 – 1936)
Air service medical manual.
The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…
GMN 8107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10283
1918 U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT, Air Service, Division of Military Aeronautics; WILMER, William Holland (1863 – 1936)
Manual of medical research laboratory.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11784
1919 FLACK, Martin William (1882 – 1931); ANDERSON, Henry Graeme (1882 – 1925); GOTCH, Oliver Horsley (1889 – 1973)
The medical and surgical aspects of aviation by H. Graeme Anderson. With chapters on applied physiology of aviation by Martin Flack, and the aero-neuroses of war pilots by Oliver H. Gotch.
The first textbook on aviation medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2137.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2691
1926 BAUER, Louis Hopewell (1888 – 1964)
Aviation medicine.
Bauer established the first school for flight surgeons in the United States. His book discusses the question of oxygen supply and its essential partial pressure, and discusses the effect of hight degrees of accelerati…
GMN 2137.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2694
1939 ARMSTRONG, Harry George (1899 – 1983)
Principles and practice of aviation medicine.
Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.
GMN 2137.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2698
1939 STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986); RUFF, Siegfried (1907 – 1989)
Grundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin.
Compendium of aerospace medicine during the Nazi regime. Ruff was director of the Aviation Medicine Department at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation. Though he was later indicted for war crimes, Ruff was n…
GMN 7174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9341
1950 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE; STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986)
German aviation medicine in World War II. Prepared under the auspices of The Surgeon General, U. S. Air Force. 2 vols.
Comprehensive analysis of German accomplishments in aviation and aerospace medicine during World War II, written by 56 mostly specialist German physicians and scientists from the Nazi regime who were brought to the Un…
GMN 7173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9340
1954 NEEL, Spurgeon Hart Jr. (1919 – 2003)
Medical considerations in helicopter evacuation.
"The introduction of the helicopter to the Army Medical Department's traditional battlefield mission of medical evacuation of sick, injured, and wounded soldiers from frontline units to hospitals in the rear had its r…
GMN 9228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11410
1955 LINK, Mae Mills (1915 – 1996); COLEMAN, Hubert Anderson (1903 – )
Medical support of the Army Air Forces in World War II.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12440
1982 DORLAND, Peter; NANNEY, James S.
Dust off: Army aeromedical evacuation in Vietnam.
Digital text available from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
GMN 9227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11409
2007 JONES, David R.; GROSS, Leroy P.; MARCHBANKS-ROBINSON, Roslyn
United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.
Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.
GMN 10250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12441
