Spain, 57, 100
Spandau Gate, 113
Spanish-American War, 139, 162, 184, 194, 199, 200, 219
Spanish Armada, 79, 228
Spanish Civil War, 229
Spanish Navy, 102
spectacles, 45
Spencer carbine, 12
spermaceti, 75
spirit of individual disorder, 65
spiritualism, 42
spital meister, 56
Spitfire, 24
splint, 176, 226
splinters, 101
St. Quentin, battle of, 57
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 173, 177
Stalin, Joseph, 21
standard caliber ammunition, 73
standardized uniforms, 75, 83
standing army, 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, 19, 181
starvation, 195
stationary hospitals, 81, 196, 201, 205
steam burns, 104
steam sterilization, 139, 180
steam-powered ship, 13, 16
steamboats, 170, 174
steel-jacketed bullets, 49
sterile wound dressings, 166; lint, 183
stethoscope, 136
Stettin, Poland, 115
stored blood, 232
Strasbourg, France, 110, 112; medical school, 158
streptococcus, 166
stressed metal skin, 22
stretcher, 210, 224
stretcher bearers, 155, 182, 195, 196, 223
strike aircraft, 27
Styrofoam blood box, 237
submachine gun, 22
submarine, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24
sugar of lead, 75
suicide, 225
sulfonamides, 232, 228, 229; sulfa drugs, 228, 233
sulfur fumigation, 99
Sumer, 36, 265
sunstroke, 209, 212
suppuration of wounds, 77, 93, 132, 232
surdomutism, 214
surgeon’s mates, 108, 113, 116, 117, 118
surgeons of the short robe, 46
Surgeons of Volunteers, 172
surgery, 138; clip, 132; drapes, 139; infection, 94; instruments, 68, 158; lighting, 216; manuals, 46; medicine, 89; sepsis, 138; shock, 135, 199
suture, 136, 166
Sweden, 79, 112
Swiss Army, 83; military medical service, 55, 56, 82, 83
Switzerland, 45, 79, 82
Sylvius, Franciscus, 67
sympathetic powder, 72, 74
syphilis, 71
Syracuse Medical College, 172
systematic realism, 180
T-34 Calliope, 23
T-34 tank, 22, 23
Tactical Combat Casualty Care program, 255, 256, 258
Tajikistan, 245, 253
Tangier, Morocco, 79
tanks, 8, 22, 27, 266
tannic acid, 50, 136, 229
tartar emetic, 75
Tavrov, Russia, 117
Tbilisi, Georgia, 253
teaching hospitals, 88
technical journals, 11
telegraph, 13
temporary hemostasis, 53
Tet Offensive, 236
tetanus, 136, 166, 168, 219; antitoxin, 219; serum, 218; vaccine, 228
The Legion, 122
The Officer’s Well-Arranged Medical Chest, 73
The Sick Soldier, 73
The Well Experienced Field Physician, 73
theory of respiration, 66
Therouanne, siege of, 60
Thirty Years War, 5, 7, 32, 36, 41, 43, 70, 71, 73, 82, 83, 178
Thomas splint, 217, 229
thoracic-abdominal surgeon, 249
3.5inch-bazooka, 22
thrombin, 230
Tilton, James, 122
time fuses, 15
tinned food, 13
Tiraspol, 253
TNT, 26
Tobruk, battle of, 229
Tobruk splint, 229
Tokosuka, Japan, 206
tombs of the Grand Armée, 147
tonsures, 46
Torgau, Germany, 115
torpedo, 17, 22
touchhole, 5
Toulouse, battle of, 149
tourniquet, 72, 132, 135, 166, 256–58; gas powered tourniquet, 257
Toyama Hospital, 210
tracking wounds, 1
traction pulley, 229
traction splinting, 256
Trafalgar, battle of, 102
transfusion resuscitation teams, 218
transfusions, 247
transplantation cure, 74
Treatise on Gunshot Wounds: Inflammation, Erysipelas, and Mortification, on Injuries of Nerves, 151
Treatise of the Blood, Inflammation, and Gunshot Wounds, 93
trench: fans, 226; foot, 219; mortars, 19; raid, 202; warfare, 218, 223
trephining, 76, 94
triage, 102, 151, 196
triangle sights, 23
tribal invasions, 44
Trident II, 25
Trotter, Thomas, 103, 104
trunnion, 4, 7
truppenverbandplatz, 231
Tsushima Straight, battle of, 104
tungsten carbide, 22
Turco-Italian War, 18
Turkey, 155
Turkish Army, 152
Turkmenistan, 246
Turko-Russian conflict, 161
Turks, 155
Turner’s Lane Hospital, 167, 173, 177
turpentine, 53, 93, 138, 143, 167
twentieth century medicine, 193–94; Boer War, 194–201; Germany, 219–21; Great Britain, 222–24; France, 221–22; Japan, 203–210; Korean War, 233–35; Russia, 210–16; Russo-Japanese War, 201–203; United States, 224–28; Vietnam War, 235–38; World War I, 216–19; World War II, 228–33
twin screws, 17
201st Motorized Rifle Division, 253
Type 93 Long Lance torpedo, 22
typhoid, 70, 96, 168, 195, 200, 203, 205, 220, 221, 227; antitoxin, 204; vaccine, 219
typhus, 42, 59, 60, 70, 71, 72, 96, 120, 168, 182, 219, 250, 251, 252
U.S. Army National Training Center, 269
U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, 137
U.S. National Research Council, 230
U.S. Naval War College, 202
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 169
UH-1E “Huey,” 236
Ukraine, 246
ultrasound machine, 260
Ulysses, 99
unconventional war, 245; Post-USSR Operations, 253–54; Soviet-Afghan War, 245–53; U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 254–62
uniform clothing, 91, 92
Union Army, 12, 161, 163, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174, 178, 179, 231; amputations, 165; causes of death, 164; medical department, 168; sanitary commission, 168; superintendent of women’s nurses, 174; wounds and sickness, 164
United States, 25, 69, 70, 79, 131, 139, 161, 225, 245
United Barber-Surgeon Company, 48
University of Virginia, 172
unjacketed bullets, 49
vaccine, 200
vaccination, 102, 183, 200, 204, 215
Valley Forge, 119, 120
Vampire, 24
van Gräfe, Karl Ferdinand, 136
van Helmont, Jean-Baptiste, 67
van Leeuwenhoek, Antonj, 66
variable timed fuse, 23
Varna, Bulgaria, 154, 155
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 137
vascular injuries, 234, 237
vascular surgery, 234, 237, 250
vascular surgeons, 234, 237
vector control teams, 251
venereal disease, 96, 173, 209, 229, 237
Venice, Italy, 57, 99
ventilated ships, 100
ventilators, 260
Veracruz, battle of, 134
vernacular, 45
Verona, Italy, 57
Versailles, France, 21
verwundetennest, 231
Vesalius, Andreas, 52
Veteran Reserve Corps, 172
veterans hospitals, 80
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sp; Vienna, Austria, 70
Vietnam, 165, 250, 255–59, 267; war, 34, 215, 234, 235, 237, 260
Vieussens, Raymond, 68
Vigo’s plaster of frog spawn, 75
Villemanzy, Quartermaster general Jacques-Pierre Orillard de, 145
vinegar water, 143
viral hepatitis, acute, 237, 253, 254
Virginia, United States, 120
Virginia Assembly, 122
Vitoria, battle of, 149
vodka, 212
volute spring bogie suspension, 23
von Bismarck, Otto, 180
von Blücher, Marshal Gebhard, 142
von Esmarch, Friedrich, 136
von Gersdorff, Hans, 50
von Liebig, Justus, 134
Vulcan cannon, 27
wagons, 81, 114, 144, 149, 150, 161, 174, 196, 223; drivers, 222
Walcheren, Holland, 148
Walker, Mary Edwards, 172
war tremors, 178
War Department, 177, 178
War of 1812, 122, 131
War of Independence, 122
War of the Austrian Succession, 109
War of the Spanish Succession, 92
Warren, John Collins, 134
Warrior, HMS, 16
Warsaw Pact, 252
Washington, Gen. George, 96, 121
water bed, 199
Waterloo, Belgium, 181, 178, 202; battle of, 142, 150–52
weapons salve, 72, 74
weapons lethality and dispersion, 30–32
welded armor, 23
Wellesley, Maj. Gen. Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 148, 149, 150, 151, 211
Wells, Spencer, 136
West Indies, 103
West Virginia, 169
wheel lock, 4, 5
Whitney, Eli, 14
whooping cough, 42
wick, 5
Willis, Thomas, 67
Wilson’s Creek, battle of, 169
Winthrop, John, 70
Wiseman, Richard, 72, 76
Wittenberg, Germany, 115
woodcut, 68
wooden deckhouses, 101
wooden splinters, 104
Woodward, Joseph, J., 174
World War I, 8, 14, 19, 153, 162, 165, 194, 198, 201, 213, 214, 216, 220, 219, 222, 225, 228, 231, 251, 258
World War II, 32, 51, 165, 194, 218, 219, 228, 231, 232, 251, 255, 256, 257, 266, 267
wound: infection, 132, 166, 217, 228, 233; management, 176; mortality, 216; surgeons, 47, 71, 70, 72, 74, 82; treatment (17th century), 73–77
Wren, Christopher, 67
Wright, Almroth, 200
Wright Flyer, 17
Wright, Orville, 17
Wright, Wilbur, 17
wundärtzne, 47
X-ray, 136, 199, 207, 216, 223
Xenakis, Brig. Gen. Stephen, 260
yellow fever, 42, 137, 148
Ypres, Third battle of, 217, 224
zinc oxide, 75
zone of destruction, 26
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICHARD A. GABRIEL is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He is a former U.S. Army officer and the author of more than forty books, including many with Potomac Books: Scipio Africanus, Thutmose III, Philip II of Macedonia, Hannibal, and Man and Wound in the Ancient World. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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