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
1917 INDERWICK, James ( – 1815); PALSITS, Victor Hugo (1867 – 1952)
Cruise of the U.S. brig Argus in 1813. Journal of surgeon James Inderwick, edited from the original manuscript in the New York Public Library with an introduction and notes by Victor Hugo Paltsits.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15321
1918 CABANÈS, Augustin (1862 – 1928)
Chirurgiens et blessés à travers l’histoire.
In this well-illustrated book Cabanès deals exhaustively with the transportation and surgical treatment of the wounded.
GMN 2184 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1296
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
1922 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
Notes on the history of military medicine.
GMN 2185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1305
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
1923 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
Traumatic shock.
"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…
GMN 11567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13766
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
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
1927 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)
A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12339
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 ASHBURN, Percy Moreau (1872 – 1940)
A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army.
GMN 2186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1312
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
1938 TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977)
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
GMN 4435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6303
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
1940 JOLLY, Douglas Waddell (1904 – 1983)
Field surgery in total war.
This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of lives of patien…
GMN 13090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15342
1941 RODDIS, Louis Harry (1886 – 1969)
A short history of nautical medicine.
GMN 2187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1313
1941 MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)
War and disease.
GMN 1684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2388
1942 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
GMN 9217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11399
1942 –1943 GRIFFIN, John Strother (1816 – 1898)
A doctor comes to California: The diary of John S. Griffin, Assistant Surgeon with Kearny's Dragoons, 1846-1847. Edited by George Walcott Ames, Jr.
"In 1840, Griffin was appointed assistant surgeon in the Army and served under General William J. Worth in Florida and, with the rank of captain, on the Southwest frontier at Fort Gibson, Griffin came to California fo…
GMN 12088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14297
1943 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.
GMN 9216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11398
1944 SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ); ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979); HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
GMN 9032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11211
1947 UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY, MEDICAL DIVISION
The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15366
