Military Medical and Surgical Essays

Download or read book Military Medical and Surgical Essays written by William Alexander Hammond and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1864 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military hygiene and therapeutics. A. Post and W.H. Van Buren.--Control and prevention of infectious diseases. E. Harris.--Quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases. W.H. Van Buren.--Vaccination in armies. F.G. Smith and A. Stillé.--Rules for preserving the health of the soldier. W.H. Van Buren.--Scurvy. W.A. Hammond.--Miasmitic fevers. J.T. Metcalf.--Continued fevers. J.B. Upham.--Yellow fever. J.T. Metcalf.--Pneumonia. A. Flint.--Dysentery. A. Stillé.--Pain and anæsthetics. V. Mott.--Hemorrhage from wounds, and the best means of arresting it. V. Mott.--Treatment of fractures in military surgery. J.H. Packard.--Amputations. S. Smith.--The excision of joints for traumatic cause. R.M. Hodges.--Venereal diseases. F.J. Bumstead