1823 THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…
The first American medical historian, Thacher gave the best contemporary account of medicine during the Revolutionary War, as well as an important history of the war in general. See No. 6710.
GMN 6584.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8495
1859 BILLROTH, Christian Albert Theodor (1829 – 1894)
Historische Studien über die Beurtheilung und Behandlung der Schusswunden vom fünfzehnten Jahrhundert bis auf die neueste Zeit.
English translation in Yale J. Biol. Med., 1931, 4, 16-36, 119-48, 225-57; reprinted in book form, New Haven, 1933.
GMN 2181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1279
1870 –1888 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); HUNTINGTON, David Low (1834 – 1899); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883); SMART, Charles (1830 – 1881); LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. 6 vols.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
Written by Woodward, Smart, Otis, and Huntington under the direction of Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General of the Army. This massive, graphically illustrated set has been called the “first comprehensive American medica…
GMN 2171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1174
1873 BROWN, Harvey Ellicott (1840 – 1889)
The medical department of the United States army from 1775 to 1873. Compiled under the direction of the Surgeon General by Harvey E. Brown.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12992
1901 KÖHLER, Albert (1850 – 1936)
Grundriss einer Geschichte der Kriegschirurgie.
GMN 2182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1284
1903 BRUNNER, Conrad (1859 – 1927)
Die Verwundeten in den Kriegen der alten Eidgenossenschaft.
History of the care of the wounded during the Wars of the Swiss Confederation. Brunner shows that the Swiss were the first nation in Europe to organize state care of the wounded. Part 2 of the above work was published…
GMN 2183 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1291
1907 MATIGNON, Jean-Jacques (1866 – 1928)
Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15061
1912 –1914 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)
A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12340
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
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 –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
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
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
1922 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)
Notes on the history of military medicine.
GMN 2185 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1305
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
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
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
1941 RODDIS, Louis Harry (1886 – 1969)
A short history of nautical medicine.
GMN 2187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1313
1942 HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.
GMN 9217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11399
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
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
1952 –1962
History of the Second World War. Medical series. 13 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN
GMN 2180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1236
1952 –1968
The Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. 30 vols. in 33.
UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
Since 1968 this series of unnumbered volumes or multi-volume sets devoted to particular subjects has continued under the name of U.S. Army Medical Department
GMN 2180.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1261
1952 ADAMS, George Worthington (1905 – 1981)
Doctors in blue. The medical history of the Union Army in the [United States] civil war.
GMN 2187.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1359
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
1954 –1956 COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969)
The Royal Naval Medical Service. Vol. 1. Administration. Vol. 2. Operations. History of the Second World War. United Kingdom medical series.
GMN 9199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11380
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 –1969 HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985); COATES, John Boyd Jr. (1911 – 1996)
Medical Department, United States Army. Preventive medicine in World War II. Editor in chief John Boyd Coates, Jr. Editor for Preventive medicine Ebbe Curtis Hoff. 9 vols.
Digital facsimile of vols. 2-9 from the Hathi Trust at this link. (When I created this entry in March 2017 it was unclear whether vol. 1 was ever published.)
GMN 9221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11403
1955 JEFFCOTT, George F. ( – 2000)
Medical Department, United States Army. United States Army Dental Service in World War II.
Digital text from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
GMN 9222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11404
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
1956 SMITH, Clarence McKittrick (1913 – 2002)
The Medical Department: Hospitalization and evacuation, zone of interior. The U. S. Army in World War II: The technical services.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10196
1957 –1963 KEEVIL, John Joyce (1901 – 1957); COULTER, Jack Leonard Sagar (1907 – 1969); LLOYD, Charles Christopher (1906 – 1986)
Medicine and the navy, 1200-1900. 4 vols.
Vols. 3-4 by C. Lloyd and J. L. S. Coulter.
GMN 2188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1362
1958 CUNNINGHAM, Horace Herndon (1913 – 1969)
Doctors in gray: the Confederate Medical Service.
GMN 2188.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1364
1958 DEBAKEY, Michael Ellis (1908 – 2008); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – )
Cold injury, ground type.
Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 12561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14800
1961 MILLER, Everett B.
Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.
"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…
GMN 9223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11405
1963 BOISSIER, Pierre (1920 – 1974)
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. De Solférino à Tsoushima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Volume I: From Solferino to Tsushima. (Geneva: Henry Dunant Institute, 1985).
GMN 8161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10337
1964 HENRY, Robert S.
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12646
1965 SERGEYEV, A. A.
Essays on the history of aviation medicine.
"Translation of Ocherki po istorii aviatsionnoy meditsiny," Moscow: U. S. S. R. Academy of Sciences Publishing House, 1962. Primarily useful for the history of aviation medicine in Russia, with a very extensive biblio…
GMN 2138.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2702
1968 BAYNE-JONES, Brig. Gen. Stanhope (1866 – 1970)
The evolution of preventive medicine in the United States Army, 1607–1939.
Available from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History, at this link.
GMN 7884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10056
1974 CANTLIE, Lieutenant-General Sir Neil (1892 – 1975)
A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.
GMN 8819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10997
1977 ALLEN, Alfred M.; OGNIBENE, Andre J.; BARRETT, O'Neill Jr.
Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.
GMN 9211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11392
1978 GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)
Naval and maritime medicine during the American revolution.
GMN 2188.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1367
1978 DURAND, André (1912 – 2008)
Histoire du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge. Vol. 2: De Sarajevo à Hiroshima.
English translation: History of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Volume II: From Sarajevo to Hiroshima (Geneva: Henri Dunant Institute, 1984).
GMN 8162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10338
1981 GILLETT, Mary Caperton (1929 – )
The [United States] Army Medical Department, 1775-1818.
GMN 2188.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1369
1981 GILBO, Patrick
The American Red Cross: The first century.
Extensively illustrated with photographs.
GMN 8659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10836
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
