ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES
THE
ARMY MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT
1865-1917
by
Mary C. Gillett
CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
1995
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ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES | ||
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Advisory Committee | ||
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John W. Shy (Chairman) |
Ira D. Gruber | |
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Joseph T. Glatthaar |
William A. Walker | |
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Brig. Gen. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. |
Col. John F. Connolly | |
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Brig. Gen. Randall L. Rigby, Jr. |
Maj. Gen. John P. Herrling | |
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Carlo W. D’Este |
D. Clayton James | |
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Rose L. Greaves |
Carol A. Reardon | |
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Michael J. Kurtz | ||
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U.S. Army Center of Military
History | ||
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Chief Historian |
Jeffrey J. Clarke | |
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gillett, Mary C.
The Army Medical Department, 1865-1917 /
by Mary C. Gillett.
p. cm. - (Army historical series)
Includes
bibliographical references and index.
1. United States. Army Medical
Dept.-History-19th century.
2. United States. Army Medical
Dept.-History-20th century.
3. Medicine, Military-United
States-History-19th century.
4. Medicine, Military-United
States-History-20th century.
5. World War, 1914-1918-Medical care. I. Title
II. Series.
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The Surgeon Generals
Demobilization
The Peacetime Organization
Creation of the Hospital Corps
Problems of Victims of War
State of
the Art
Preventive Medicine
Surgery
Hospitals
Above and Beyond Health
Care
Off-duty Pursuits
Fighting an Unorthodox Enemy
Supporting a Major Expedition
Surgeons
and Their Work
Care of Reservation Indians
The Last Battle
The New Surgeon General
Personnel and Training
Preventive Medicine
Surgery
Domestic Conflict
5. PREPARATIONS FOR CONQUESTS OVERSEAS
The Medical Buildup
Readying Supply
Organizing a Hospital
System
Launching the Cuban Expedition
Launching the Philippine
Expedition
6. SUPPORTING THE INVASION FORCES
In Cuba
In Puerto Rico
In the Philippines
7. DISEASE AND DEATH IN U.S. CAMPS
Camp Thomas
Camps in Florida
Camp Alger
Retreat From Disease:
New Camps
Camp Wikoff
The Typhoid Board
The Dodge Commission
Investigation
8. CAMPAIGNS OF THE NEW EMPIRE
The Philippine Insurrection
Hospitals and Evacuation
Medical
Personnel
Health of the Troops
Supply and Diet
The China Relief
Expedition
Health of the Troops
Improving Sanitation
Fighting Yellow Fever
The Yellow Fever Board
A Time of Trial and Triumph
10. PUBLIC HEALTH IN OTHER CARIBBEAN AREAS
Puerto Rico
Panama Canal Zone
Gorgas and the Opposition
Fighting Disease
The Hospital System
A Worthy Rivalry
11. PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE PHILIPPINES
Research and Disease Boards
Organizing the Campaign
The Campaign
The Most Dangerous Threats
Other Health Problems
12. THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION
The Surgeon Generals
The Surgeon General's Office
Medical Officers
Dentists
Nurses
The Hospital Corps
Preparing Medical Personnel
for War
General Hospitals
Supply
13. THE MEDICAL SERVICE IN ACTION
Fighting Disease and Disability
Hospitals and Laboratories
Evacuation
Practice for War
Disaster Relief
The Surgeon General
Medical Department Personnel
National Guard
Medical Personnel
Supply
Hospitals and Laboratories
Training Along
the Mexican Border
Lessons Learned From Europe
Table
Philippine Tropical Disease Board Members
No.
1.
Bighorn-Yellowstone Expedition, 1876
2. Cuba,
1898
3. The
Caribbean, 1898
4. The
Philippines, 1899
Illustrations
Joseph
K. Barnes
Charles H.
Crane
Robert
Murray
John
Moore
Jedediah H.
Baxter
Charles
Sutherland
William H.
Arthur's Caricature
John van R.
Hoff
Fred C.
Ainsworth
George M.
Sternberg
Post
Hospital at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
Alfred
Alexander Woodhull
Daniel
Smith Lamb
Joseph J.
Woodward
Elliott
Coues
Mule
Pulling a Travois
Holmes O.
Paulding
James P.
Kimball
George E.
Lord
Bennett A.
Clements
Curtis E.
Munn
Julius H.
Patzki
Junius L.
Powell
Leonard
Wood
Bernard
Semig
Peter J. A.
Cleary
Surgeon
General Sternberg
Army
Medical Museum Classroom
John Shaw
Billings
Charles
Smart
Daniel G.
Caldwell
Nicholas
Senn
Charles R.
Greenleaf
Dallas
Bache
Nurses at
Josiah Simpson General Hospital near Fort Monroe
General
Hospital at Fort Monroe
Henry
Lippincott
Benjamin F.
Pope
Aaron H.
Appel
Marshall W.
Wood
George
McCreery
Valery
Havard
Francis J.
Ives
Louis A.
LaGarde
Albert
Hartsuff
Louis M.
Maus
Medical
Care at Jacksonville
Alfred C.
Girard
Victor C.
Vaughan
Second
Reserve Hospital, Manila, Philippines
Ward on
Hospital Ship Relief
Converted
Hospital Facilities at Angeles and Dagupan
Medical
Officer Caring for a Wounded Filipino Insurgent
William B.
Banister
Walter
Reed
Aristides
Agramonte
Jesse W.
Lazear
James
Carroll
Carlos Juan
Finlay
Clara L.
Maass
Bailey K.
Ashford
Jefferson
R. Kean
William C.
Gorgas
Cartoon by
Gorgas
Street in
Colon, Panama
Theodore C.
Lyster
Richard P.
Strong
Charles F.
Craig
Percy M.
Ashburn
Edward B.
Vedder
Weston P.
Chamberlain
Franklin A.
Meacham
A
Sewage-clogged Drainage Ditch
William H.
Forwood
Robert M.
O'Reilly
George H.
Torney
Paul F.
Straub
Jane A.
Delano
Company of
Instruction Training at Washington Barracks
Henry L.
Gilchrist
Chief
Surgeon Girard
Letterman
General Hospital, Presidio, San Francisco
Frederick
F. Russell
Carl R.
Darnall
William J.
L. Lyster
Edward L.
Munson
San
Francisco, April 1906
Torney as a
Young Officer
Robert U.
Patterson
Surgeon
General Gorgas
Base
Hospital at Fort Sam Houston
Field
Hospital No. 7 En Route to Mexico
Henry P.
Birmingham
Field
Hospital and Its Surgical Ward
Animal-drawn
and Motor Ambulances
Illustrations courtesy of the following sources: pp. 44, 98, 211 (top/bottom), 215, 358, and 359, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; pp. 153 and 188, Harper's Weekly, August 1898 and September 1898; p. 366 (top/bottom), Library of Congress; p. 316, National Archives and Records Administration; and pp. 65, 126, 269, 298, and 330, U.S. Army Center of Military History. All other illustrations are from the files of the National Library of Medicine. Because most of the photographs from the latter collection are undated and without identification beyond the names of the subjects, the captions for the illustrations in this volume do not specify rank.
The work of Charles Johnson Post (1873-1956) depicted on the paperback cover-Field Hospital Back of the Lines, Cuba, 1898, watercolor, 143/4" x 183/4" - is from the Army Art Collection.
