1915 GRAY, Henry McIlree Williamson (1870 – 1938)
Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.
Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds of the…
GMN 2177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1216
1915 GRAHAM, John Henry Porteus (1869 – 1957)
A note on a relapsing febrile illness of unknown origin.
First reported case of “trench fever”.
GMN 5385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7113
1915 HUNT, George Herbert (1884 – 1926); RANKIN, Allan Coats (1877 – 1959)
Intermittent fever of obscure origin, occurring among British soldiers in France. The so-called “trench-fever”.
In this paper trench fever is so named for the first time.
GMN 5386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7118
1916 PRINZING, Friedrich (1859 – 1938); WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
Epidemics resulting from wars. Edited by Harald Westergaard.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2374
1916 TINEL, Jules (1879 – 1952)
Les blessures des nerfs.
A study of the effect of gunshot wounds on nerves. English translation, London, 1917.
GMN 4887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5838
1916 HIS, Wilhelm Jr. (1863 – 1934)
Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).
His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.
GMN 5387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7134
1916 TÖPFER, Hans Willi (1876 – )
Zur Ursache und Uebertragung des Wolhynischen Fiebers.
Isolation of Rickettsia quintana (now called Bartonella quintana) from lice found on patients suffering from trench fever.
GMN 5389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7140
1917 –1918 ROBERTSON, Oswald Hope (1886 – 1966)
Transfusion with preserved red blood cells.
Robertson stored blood and used it with good results to treat casualties on the battlefield.
GMN 2021.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2023
1917 JOHNSTON, William (1843 – 1914)
Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army.
Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Char…
GMN 6723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7837
1917 VEDDER, Edward Bright (1878 – 1952)
Sanitation for medical officers. Medical War Manual No. 1. Authorized by the Secretary of War and under the Supervision of the Surgeon-General and the Council of National Defense.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11391
1917 –1922 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922); ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934); BROUARDEL, Georges (1869 – 1959); ALBERT, François (1877 – 1933)
Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…
GMN 10532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12725
1917 YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14733
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 HURST, Sir Arthur Frederick (1879 – 1944)
Medical diseases of the war. Second edition
Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…
GMN 8604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10781
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
1918 BARRETT, James William Sir (1862 – 1945); DEANE, Percival Edgar (Percy) (1890 – 1946)
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13194
1918 ROBERTS, John Bingham (1852 – 1924)
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14285
1918 VISCHER, Adolf Lukas (1884 – 1974)
Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.
Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.
GMN 13905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16197
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
1919 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931); WELLER, Carl Vernon (1887 – 1969)
The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11619
1919 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
The story of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5
An account of the Base Hospital in which Cushing served in World War I, based upon his wartime diaries. Limited to 250 copies, some of which were issued in cloth-backed printed boards, and others in printed wrappers. …
GMN 11011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13207
1919 ANONYMOUS
“Album de la guerre”: Five hundred photographs, seventy drawings and thirteen articles by members of Base Hospital no. 4, U.S.A. . . . and Mobile Hospital no. 5, U.S.A. . . . covering a period of twenty-three months from May 8th, 1917 to April 8th, 1919.
GMN 11031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13227
1919 JUDD, James Robert (1876 – 1947)
With the American Ambulance in France.
Born in 1876 Honolulu, James Judd, the grandson of missionaries, was a private practice physician and graduate of Oahu College, Yale and Columbia Universities. He served in three wars: the Spanish-American and World W…
GMN 11983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14191
1920 GILLIES, Sir Harold Delf (1882 – 1960)
Plastic surgery of the face.
Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.
GMN 5758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6692
1920 MURRAY, Flora (1869 – 1923); ANDERSON, Louisa Garrett (1873 – 1943)
Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919
Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…
GMN 7157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9324
1920 UNDERHILL, Frank Pell (1877 – 1932)
The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14276
1920 WILMER, William Holland (1863 – 1936)
Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.
"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…
GMN 12162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14372
1921 –1929 MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)
History of the Great War Medical Services. Edited by William Grant MacPherson. 12 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
GMN 2178 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1228
1921 –1929 IRELAND, Merritte Weber (1867 – 1952); LYNCH, Charles F. (1868 – 1937)
The medical department of the U.S. Army in the First World War. Prepared under the direction of Merritte W. Ireland. Editor-in-chief: Col. Charles Lynch. 15 vols. in 17.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
pt. 1. Demobilization, 1919, by C.B. Davenport and A.G. Love. 1921. pt. 2. Medical and casualty statistics based on the medical records of the United States Army, April 1, 1917, to December 31, 1919, inclusive, by A.G…
GMN 2179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1232
1921 CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
La radiologie et la guerre.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11767
1923 DEARBORN, Frederick Myers (1876 – 1960)
American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.
Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…
GMN 9077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11256
1925 MACPHAIL, Andrew John (1864 – 1938)
The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11628
1928 HUTTON, Lady Isabel Galloway Emslie (1887 – 1960)
With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.
Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…
GMN 12605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14845
1929 POTTLE, Frederick Albert (1897 – 1987)
Stretchers: The story of a hospital unit on the western front.
History of the U.S. Army American Expeditionary Forces Evacuation Hospital no. 8, World War 1, 1914-1918, in which Pottle served. Pottle was the greatest Boswell and Samuel Johnson scholar. Digital facsimile from the …
GMN 11004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13200
1930 –1943 BUTLER, Arthur Graham (1872 – 1949)
Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918
GMN 9621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11808
1930 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.
Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…
GMN 10847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13043
1953 –1956 FEASBY, W. R.
Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11629
1992 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Battlefield medicine: A history of the military ambulance from the Napoleonic wars through World War I.
GMN 10128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12317
1999 HYSON, John Miller Jr. (1927 – 2009)
African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.
Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)
GMN 9224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11406
2005 BYERLY, Carol R.
Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
GMN 10415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12608
2007 WIGLE, Shari Lynn; ANDERSON, Grace (1884 – 1973)
Pride of America, we're with you: The letters of Grace Anderson, U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I.
GMN 8995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11174
2007 DOLEV, Eran (1939 – )
Allenby's military medicine: Life and death in World War I Palestine.
GMN 9620 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11807
2008 PRIOR, Richard M.; BUDREAU, Lisa M. (1957 – )
Answering the call: The U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I. edited by Lisa M. Budreau and Richard M. Prior.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11183
2010 HARRISON, Mark
The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.
GMN 8248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10424
2011 REZNICK, Jeffrey S.
Healing the nation: Soldiers and the culture of caregiving in Britain during the Great War.
GMN 7949 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10124
2011 YARNELL, John L.
Barbed wire disease: British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19.
"By the time of the Armistice in 1918, around 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated suffering a…
GMN 13906 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16198
2013 MEIKLE, Murray Clyde (1938 – )
Reconstructing faces: The art and wartime surgery of Gillies, Pickerill, McIndoe and Mowlem.
GMN 11366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13565
2014 MAYHEW, Emily
Wounded: A new history of the Western Front in World War I.
A comprehensive account of medical care at the Western Front in World War I. Over 21 million military in were wounded in World War I, and nearly 10 million were killed.
GMN 10970 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13166
2016 HALLETT, Christine E.
Nurse writers of the great war.
GMN 8997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11176
2016 FISHER, W. Douglas (1938 – ); BUCKLEY, Joann H.
African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.
GMN 9554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11740
