Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts

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Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales.In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than hostile raiding parties. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were considered to be in the line of duty and twice resulted in amputations at Fort Davis. Donna Smith explains how an industrious laundress could earn more than a private, a female army surgeon won the Medal of Honor and a garrison illegally hung its bartender.

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Frontier Medicine at Fort Davis and Other Army Posts From a headless burial to cocaine toothache drops, the true stories hidden in the Wild West's medical records are a match for its tallest tales.In the 19th century, when dying young was a fact of life, a routine bout of diarrhea could be fatal. No one had heard of viruses or bacteria, but they killed more soldiers on the frontier than hostile raiding parties. Physicians dispensed whiskey for TB, mercury for VD and arsenic for indigestion. Baseball injuries were considered to be in the line of duty and twice resulted in amputations at Fort Davis. Donna Smith explains how an industrious laundress could earn more than a private, a female army surgeon won the Medal of Honor and a garrison illegally hung its bartender.

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The Army Medical Department 1865-1917 Mary C. Gillett CMH-30-9-1 Bibliography

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THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 1865–1917 Mary C. Gillett Army Historical Series CMH Pub 30-9, Cloth; CMH Pub 30-9-1, Paper 1987, 1995; 517 pages, maps, table, illustrations, bibliography, index The Army Medical Department, 1865-1917, is the third of four planned volumes that treat the time of revolutionary change in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine. Mary C. Gillett traces major developments for the Medical Department—from its rebirth as a small scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, to the entrance of the United States into World War I.

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THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 1865–1917 Mary C. Gillett Army Historical Series CMH Pub 30-9, Cloth; CMH Pub 30-9-1, Paper 1987, 1995; 517 pages, maps, table, illustrations, bibliography, index The Army Medical Department, 1865-1917, is the third of four planned volumes that treat the time of revolutionary change in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine. Mary C. Gillett traces major developments for the Medical Department—from its rebirth as a small scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, to the entrance of the United States into World War I.

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