A Treatise of the Scurvy, 103
A Memory of Solferino (Un Souvenir de Solferino), 159
A-10, 27
AC-130, 27
Académie Royale de Chirurgie (Royal Academy of Surgery), 89, 97, 112
Académie Françhise, 69
Academy of the Lynxes, 68
accumulator battery, 17
acetum, 53
Acinetobacter baumannii infection, 258
acute respiratory infections, 233
adhesive bandages, 53
Adolf of Nassau, 45
advanced surgical center (ASC), 229
Aeneid, 34
aerial photography, 18
Afghan officer corps, 246
Afghanistan, 36, 165, 245, 247, 248, 253–61, 267
Age of Absolutism, 8
Agramonte, Aristide, 137
AH-64 Apache, 27
aileron, 17
air evacuation system, 249
airborne medical units, 229
airplane, 13
Alanson, Edward, 95
Alaska, 175
Albuera, battle of, 108
Aldershot, England, 201
Alexander the Great, 2
alkalinity, 87
alum, 75
ambulance, 119, 141, 145, 149, 150, 154, 155, 157, 160, 161, 162, 168, 169, 170, 174, 182, 183, 196, 211, 225, 227, 233, 254; convoys, 223; horse-drawn, 226; motorized, 226; trains, 228
America, 21
American colonies, 117
American Expeditionary Force, 224
American medical officers, 225
American Red Cross, 174
American Revolutionary War, 94, 117, 161
American Surgical Association, 139
Amiens, siege of, 80
amputation, 1, 49, 51, 52, 53, 73, 77, 78, 83, 94, 102, 132, 137, 142, 197, 207, 216, 229, 231, 234, 234, 255; field, 77; prophylactic, 217; thigh, 78, 137; traumatic, 246; amputees, 261
An Essay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen, 103
An Essay on Disease Incidental to Europeans in Hot Climates, 103
analgesics, 258
anatomical illustration, 68, 89
anatomical texts, 46
anatomical theater, 68
Anatomie Universelle, 46
anesthesia, 78, 132–35; 139, 156, 159, 161, 162, 167, 176, 224, 259
anesthesiologist, 249
anesthesiology, 132
anesthetics, 134
angle worms, 75
aniline dyes, 174
animism, 87
anorexia, 177
antiaircraft guns, 19
Antietam Creek, battle of, 170
antimalarial control units, 228
antisepsis, 95, 102, 105, 149, 142, 180
antiseptics, 94, 132, 167, 109, 216
antiseptic surgery, 133, 138, 139, 180, 183, 215, 220, 228
antitank guns, 22
antitoxins, 219
Antwerp, Holland, 148
Anvers, France, 151
apothecary, 107, 108, 112, 117, 118, 149, 211; guilds, 74
Apothecary Bureau, 116
apprentice system of medical training, 172
apprenticeship programs, 70
Arabs, 44
Archangel, Russia, 117
area saturation artillery, 26
Arethusa, HMS, 135
Argus, HMS, 20
Armamentarium Chirugicum, 68
Armenia, 245
armor piercing discarding sabot, 27
armored knights, 2
armored turret, 16
Army Medical Department, 154
Army Medical School at Netley, England, 200
Army of the Rhine, 143, 144, 145
Army of the Potomac, 166
Arras, France, 81
arresting gear, 20
arterial clips, 136
arterial injuries, 229
arterial wounds, 234
artificial limbs, 52
artificial teeth, 52
artillerie volante (flying artillery), 144
artillery, 7, 4; guided rounds, 266; lightweight guns, 7; observation, 18
assault gun, 23
Astrakhan, Russia, 117
asylum system, 176
atomic bomb, 24
atropine syringes, 255
Austria, 89, 97, 12, 114, 115, 178
avalanches, 211
Aveling, James, 217
B-24 Liberator, 24
B-29 Superfortress, 24
Bacon, Francis, 74
bacterial smear, 217
bacteriology, 132, 133, 137–40, 210, 215, 216; mobile laboratories, 217, 223
Baghdad, 258
Bagram, Afghanistan, 248
Balaclava, battle of, 153
Balkan Wars, 234
ballistic eye wear, 259
Baltic Fleet, 116
banking systems, 9
barber surgeons, 46, 47, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 60, 69, 71, 79, 82, 83, 113–16, 160, 179, 180
barracks, 90
barrage rockets, 268
Barton, Edward H., 134
Barton, Clara, 174
base hospitals, 206
battalion aid station, 235
battle mortality, 33–34
battle of annihilation, 267
battle shock, 179
battle surgeons, 49, 51, 160, 121, 234
battle stress, 214
battle tank, 20
battlefield amputation, 135
battlefield surgery, 156
battleship, 24
bayonet, 6, 34, 163, 202; barrel, 7; plug, 6; ring, 6
Beardsley, Ebenezer, 122
bed sacks, 119
behavioral disorders, 177
Behrens, Konrad, 82
Belgium, 222
belladonna, 78
Belle Ile, battle of, 93
Bellows, Henry, 169
Besancon, siege of, 78
Bidloo, Nicolass, 116
Billings, John Shaw, 175
biological nosological psychiatry, 214
black powder, 75
bleeding, 256–58
Blenheim, battle of, 92
blinding injuries, 259
block tourniquet, 78
Bloemfontein, South Africa, 195
blood: banks, 232; cross matching, 199; gases, 260; groups, 218; plasma, 237; pressure, 217; products, 230; stored, 228
blood transfusions, 199, 216–18; 228, 230; reactions, 237; specialists, 249; technology of, 232; teams, 228
Blood Transfusion Service, 228
blood types, 218; type matching, 218
blood, waxed transfer tubes, 218
blood, universal donor, 237
bloodless surgery, 136
bloodletting, 93
BM-21 rocket launcher, 26
board of medical examiners, 118
body armor, 34, 75, 76, 83, 247, 266
body snatchers, 194
Boers, 196, 197; Boer War, 13, 184, 194–201, 206, 211, 222; Second Boer War, 157
Boerhaave, Herman, 87
boiling oil, 50–52
Bolshevik regime, 245
bolt action rifle, 6
booby traps, 235
Book of Surgery, 50
Borelli, Giovanni, 67
boric acid, 216
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 245
boxcars, 222
Boyle, Robert, 66
Boylston, Zabdiel, 96
Bradley M2, 28
Bradwell, Stephen, 68
brain, 177
Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro, 90
brancardiers, 144
breathing canisters, 226
breech-loading artillery, 12
Breslau, Germany, 115
brine, 100
Britain, 225
British Army, 12, 91, 97, 100, 102, 104, 105, 108, 148, 195, 217, 222
British Army doctors, 198, 199
British Army Medical Corps, 154, 195, 223
British Royal Flying Corps, 18
Brocklesby, Richard, 105
Brown Bess, 6
Brown, William, 122
Bruges, Belgium, 151
Brunschwig, Hieronymus, 50
BTR-80, 254
Bulgars, 155
bullet, 1, 5, 73, 77, 78, 92, 165, 198, 203; detectors, 199; metal jacket, 197; soft-lead, 197; wounds, 94
Bunker Hill, battle of, 118
burns, 49, 50; burn injuries, 235, 255
butterfly mines, 246
by expectation, 165
Byzantine Empire, 3
Byzantium, 44
C-ration, 251
Calais, France, 81
calcium hypochlorite, 227
caliber measurement, 7
calomel, 167
Cambrai, battle of, 20
camphor, 203
cannon, 3, 5, 48; cannon balls, 101
capped catheter, 257
carbolic acid, 136, 138, 139, 203
cardiorespiratory depressants, 259
Carlisle, England, 138
Carolingian Dynasty, 58
Carrel, Alexis, 217
Carrel-Dakin solution, 216, 217
Carroll, James, 137
Cartagena Harbor, Spain, 103
cast bronze cannon, 4
cast armor, 23
cast artillery, 7
casual disorder, 79
casualties, 28–32; burden of, 92; effect, 26; rates, 93, 152; evacuation of, 221
casualty clearing stations, 146, 201, 219, 228–30
catgut, 136
Cathcart, Lord, 103
catheters, 259
Catholic Church, 43
Catholic League, 82
Catholic Sisters of Mercy, 171, 174
cautery, 8, 50, 51, 52, 77, 132, 166
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, 52, 53
central military hospital, 248
chain shot, 8
Chain, Ernst B., 229
Channel Fleet, 101
Charles I of France, 79
Charles II of England, 69
Charles the Bold, 57
Charles V, 52
Charles V of Germany, 56
Charles VII of France, 56
charpie, 93
Chelsea, England, 81
chemical munitions, 268
chemical suits, 255
Chemical Warfare Service, 225, 226
chemical weapons, 255
Chevaliers de l’Étoile, 58
Chickamauga, battle of, 173
child mortality, 71
Chimborazo Hospital, 173
Chirurgie d’armée, 105
chlorine gas, 19
chloroform, 133, 134, 135, 156, 157, 161, 166, 167, 175
cholera, 155, 168, 182, 204, 205, 219, 220, 250, 254
Chopart, François, 89
Christie suspension, 23
circular bit saw, 76
circulation of the blood, 66
City of Memphis, 170
Civil War, 5, 6, 8, 12, 11, 14, 18, 19, 32, 131, 136, 157, 161, 162, 166, 167, 173, 176, 178, 182, 196, 205, 208, 211, 213, 217, 225, 231, 256
Clarke, William E., 134
clearing station, 82, 111, 171, 196, 216, 223, 224, 228,
clerico-secular social order, 41, 42
clinical amphitheater, 71
clinical instruction, 68
clinical observation, 88
clinical thermometers, 216
clip-fed rifle, 6
Clowes, William, 78
coagulants, 230
coastal steamers, 170
Cober, Tobias, 72
Code de médecine militaire, 105
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 69
College of William and Mary, 70
Colombier, Jean, 105
colored medical illustration, 89
Columbus, Christopher, 99
combat gauze, 256
combat helicopter, 27
Combat Lifesaver Program, 256
combat psychiatric cases, 173
combat pulses, 28
combat support hospital (CSH), 260
combat triage, 143
Committees of Safety, 118
communicable disease, 193
compagnies d’ordonnance, 56
Company of Barbers, 48
concentration camps, 195
condottieri, 41
Confederacy, 169; army of, 163; medical officers, 169; medical service, 174, 175
confused states, 214
Congressional Medal of Honor, 173
Coningsby, Sir Thomas, 81
conning tower, 17
conservative treatment of wounds, 206–7, 216
Constantinople, Turkey, 3, 41, 44, 96
consumption, 100
Continental Congress, 96
contra-rotating propeller, 16
contract physicians, 210
convalescent centers, 228
conventional war, 245; weapons of, 25
convents, 58
conversion reaction, 178
Cook County Hospital, 230
copper plate engraving method, 68, 89
cordite, 15
corned gunpowder, 5
cornstarch, 230
corrosive sublimate, 198
cotton rags, 166
Council of Lucerne, 55
counterinsurgency warfare, 235
Cours d’opérations de chirurgie, 89
Courtois, Bernard, 138
cowpox inoculation, 96
Craig, Sir James Henry, 108
cranial surgery, 94
Crecy, battle of, 2
cremation, 209
Crimea, Russia, 231
Crimean Medical and Surgical Society, 156
Crimean War, 8, 12, 34, 35, 131, 135, 137, 148, 151, 152, 158, 168, 169, 173, 197, 205, 210, 211, 212, 217, 251; Crimean War, 152–61; England, 153–57; France, 157–60; Russia, 160–61
Cromwell, Oliver, 83
crown saw, 76
Crown Point, New York, 120
cruise missile, 25
Crusades, 99
crush injuries, 104
Cuba, 137
Cullen, William, 87
Culloden Moor, battle of, 7
czarist armies, 160
D. A. January, 170
d’Hautpoul, Alphonse Henri, 157, 158
Da Nang lung, 258
Daley Hospital, 210
Danish-Prussian War, 135
de Hautesierck, Richard, 97
de le Boë, Franz, 66
De humani corporis fabrica, 52
debridement, 53, 94, 142, 166, 176, 198, 219, 230, 233
deck catapult, 20
Denmark, 112
dentistry, 175
depth charge, 20
Desault, Pierre-Joseph, 89, 94, 142
Descartes, René, 67
destroy and search missions, 246
Dettingen campaign, 98
diarrhea, 255; diarrheal diseases, 237
Digby, Kenelm, 74
digestion, 67
Dionis, Pierre, 89
diphtheria, 42, 70, 227, 250; antitoxin serum, 204
Directions for Preserving the Health of the Soldier, 122
disabled veterans, 58
disease, 58, 59, 91, 95, 96, 119, 121, 127, 132, 133, 141, 148, 152, 153, 155, 159, 167, 185, 195, 210, 211, 225, 233, 253, 266; prevention, 208; disease-specific agents, 138
dive-bomber, 23
division medical battalion, 248
division clearing stations, 233
division d’ambulance, 146
Dix, Dorothea, 174
doctrine of necessary suppuration, 74
dog fat, 75
dog tags, 237
Domitz, siege of, 82
double hulls, 17
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 194
DRASH packs, 259
Dreadnought, HMS, 16
Dresden, 115
dressing stations, 115, 205, 222, 223, 228, 230, 247
droit d’oblat system, 80
dry rations, 251
Dublin Philosophical Society, 69
Dubois, E. F., 34
Duke of Marlborough, 79
Dunant, Henri, 159
Dunkirk, France, 81
duplicarius, 99
dura, 76
dvukolks, 211
dysentery, 59, 70, 122, 168, 195, 204, 205, 211, 219, 220, 227, 250
E. Coli, 251
earwigs, 75
East Tennessee, 169
École Pratique de Chirurgie, 89
École d’Application de la Médicine Militaire, 158
Economical and Medical Observations on Military Hospitals and Camp Diseases, 105
Economical Observations on Military Hospitals and the Prevention of Disease Incident to an Army, 122
Edward IV of England, 57
Egypt, 142, 146; Egyptians, 76; Egyptian campaign, 178
eighteenth century, 87–90; American colonies, 117–23; England, 104–9; France, 109–13; naval medicine, 99–104; Prussia, 113–15; Russia, 115–17; trends in military medicine, 90–99
85mm gun, 23
El Alamein, battle of, 230
El Salvador, 245
electric motors, 24
electronic fire control system, 23
Ely, Eugene, 17
emersion foot, 219
emotional turbulence, 178
empirical observation, 66
empirical logic, 88
England, 21, 79, 100, 117, 139, 160, 179, 180; army, 119; Civil Wars, 70, 78, 83; Revolution, 71
Enlightenment, 110
enteric fever, 219
epidemics, 42, 66, 102, 120, 182
epidemiological works, 72
epilepsy, 179
ergotism, 42
ersatz kompanie, 232
erysipelas antitoxin, 204
Esmarch elastic bandage, 136, 183
ether, 135, 161, 162, 166, 167
etiology of disease, 184
eugenics theories, 225
Europe, 3, 4, 14, 19, 20, 42–46, 56, 69, 70, 75, 77, 82, 113, 121, 131, 147, 161, 180, 185, 194, 245, 255
Eusol solution, 216
evacuation hospital, 224, 226, 227, 236
evacuation of psychiatric cases, 213
evacuation syndrome, 213
executioners, 72
exhausted hearts, 178
exploding artillery shot, 216
Ezerski, General, 211
Fabry, Wilhelm “Fabricius,” 72
facial disfigurement, 262
facial injuries, 174
facial reconstruction, 174
facial wounds, 218
fahnlein, 56
Fallujah, Iraq, 255; second battle of, 258
Faraday, Michael, 134
fascist state, 20
feigned insanity, 178
feldlazarett, 231
feldscher, 55, 160, 180, 210, 213
fentanyl, 258
fermentation, 137
Ferrara, Italy, 57
feudal social order, 1, 4, 8, 41
field evacuation system, 210
field hospital, 70, 83, 110, 112, 171, 176, 195, 196, 201, 205, 206, 208, 218, 224, 226, 227, 228, 236, 248
field hygiene, 58, 78–79, 119, 208, 221, 199, 228, 251
field latrines, 251
field surgeons, 83
field telephone, 15
field transfusion units, 218, 230
Fifth Motorized Rifle Division, 250
Fifty Strange and Wonderful Cures for Gunshot Wounds, 72
filth pharmacopoeia, 74
Finland, 21
firearms, 3, 6, 73, 83, 90, 92
fire direction center, 26
first aid kit, 219
First Battle of Bull Run, 169
fixed ammunition, 15
flak jackets, 247
Flanders, Belgium, 108, 178, 198, 201
flash burns, 50
Flemming, Alexander, 229
flint, 5
flintlock 5
Florence, Italy, 57
Florey, Howard W., 229
flush toilets, 251
flying machine, 17
Fontenoy, battle of, 97
Forrestal, USS, 25
Fort Irwin, California, 26, 269
Fort Henry, Tennessee, battle of, 170
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 168
forward aid station, 229
forward: surgery, 219; surgical stations, 216; surgical teams (FST), 228, 259
forward treatment of psychiatric casualties, 214, 227
France, 21, 44, 52, 68, 79, 80, 89, 91, 92, 100, 109, 110, 227, 139, 141, 157, 159, 160, 179, 182, 202, 224, 227
Francis, Duke of Guise, 59, 60
Franco-Prussian War, 6, 97, 131, 138, 139, 161, 179, 181, 182, 184, 195, 197, 213, 217, 219, 231
Frederick the Great of Prussia, 7, 8, 92, 115, 181
Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia, 92, 114
Frederick Wilhelm Institute, 115, 181
Fredericksburg, battle of, 170, 173
French Academy of Sciences, 69
French Army, 91, 144, 153, 154, 158, 221, 222
French and Indian War, 117
French Journal of Medicine, 69
French military medical service, 112
French Navy, 102
French Republic, 112
French Revolution, 111, 112, 113, 129, 131, 140, 181
Freudian psychology, 261
frontline hospitals, 216
frostbite, 219
frettage, 15
Fuller, Samuel, 70
fumigating ovens, 209
Furious, HMS, 20
Gandhi, Mohandas, 194
gangrene, 166, 234; gas gangrene, 136, 216, 217
gas: casualties, 226; masks, 225, 226; warfare, 226
Gates, Gen. Horatio, 96
GAU-8, 27
Gehema, Janus Abraham, 73
general hospital, 106, 108, 110, 111, 114, 146, 147, 150, 151, 155, 156, 162, 166, 170, 173, 176, 196, 228, 229
General Hospital for the Insane, 179
Genoa, Italy, 99; Genoese Navy, 57
George I of England, 91
George Washington, USS, 25
Gerlich gun, 22
germ theory of infection, 153, 138, 204
German Army, 139, 181, 215, 219
German General Staff, 220
German medical service, 231–33
German officer corps, 232
Germany, 14, 21, 42, 106, 131, 132, 134, 136, 139, 159, 178, 179, 180, 196, 202, 203, 220, 225
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 202
Glogau, Germany, 115
Goercke, Johann, 181
goniometer, 15
Gorgas, William, 137
Goto, Masanao, 204
Government Hospital for the Insane, 177
graduate wonders, 232
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., 169
Graunt, John, 68
Graveyard of the German Army, 70
Gray Ghost of the Confederacy, 12
Great Northern War, 116
great Richmond fire, 174
Great Plague of London, 70
Greece, 44, 45, 46, 268; Greek physicians, 69
Grenada, 245
ground attack fighter, 23
guided torpedo, 16
Guild of Barbers in England, 48
Guild of Surgeons, 48
Guillemeau, Jacques, 78
gunpowder, 1, 4, 48, 50, 51, 53; revolution of, 3; weapons, 33, 51, 266
gunshot wounds, 49–53; 74, 77, 105, 198
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 6, 5, 73, 81, 82
Gutenberg Bible, 45
Guthrie, George James, 135, 147–48, 151
Guthrie, Samuel, 134
gyrocompass, 17
gyroscope, 17
Hickman, Henry Hill, 134
Hadrian, 99
Haig, Gen.eral Douglas, 224
halberdsmen, 2
Hales, Stephen, 100
Halifax, Lord, 100
Hall, John, 156
Halsted, William Steward, 136
Hammond, Surgeon General William, 167, 169, 171, 175
hand grenade, 7
hand-washing basins, 209
Harbin, Manchuria, 214
hard biscuits, 101
Hardy, Capt. Thomas, 102
Hardy, J. D., 34
hauffen, 56
hauptverbandplatz, 231
head wounds, 92
health certificates, 99
heart disease, 250
heart surgeon, 249
heart ventricles, 66
heat exhaustion, 209
heimweh, 178
helicopter, 234, 235, 236, 237, 258, 267
Hellfire antitank missile, 27
hemogram, 259
hemorrhage, 258
hemostatis, 135, 151, 166; hemostatic agents, 258; QuickClot, 258; HemCon, 258; Combat Gauze, 258; forceps, 216
Henry IV of France, 80
Henry VII of England, 56
hepatitis A, 250
high-mobility battlefield, 266
high-velocity rifles, 198, 247
Hind Mi-24, 27
Hippocrates, 49
Hiroshima, Japan, 24
histology, 66
Hobbes, Thomas, 87
Hodgen, John, 167
Hodges, Nathaniel, 70
Hodgen splint, 167
Holland, USS, 17
Home Hospital Reserve, 201
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Sr, 133
Homer, 99
Honeywell guns, 27
horde tactics, 140
horizontal rudder, 16
Horrocks, Col. William, 202
horse cavalry, 8
horse-drawn artillery, 38
hospital cars, 170
Hospital Conveyance Corps, 155
hospital fever, 96
hospital trains, 225
hospital ships, 60, 99, 103, 170, 195, 206, 228, 236
hospital wagons, 143
hospitals: field, 77, 78, 80; military, 79–83; mobile, 80
hot knife, 102
Hôtel National des Invalides, 80
howitzers, 8
Hughes 30mm chain gun, 27
human fat, 75
humane weapons, 198
Humvees, 259
Hungarian Disease, 70
Hunter, John, 88, 89, 93, 105, 142
Hustin, Albert, 218
hydraulic recoil cylinders, 15
hydrophone, 20
hydroelectric gun stabilizing system, 23
hygiene, 185; regulations, 110, 212
hyoscyamus, 78
hypnotic suggestions, 133, 136, 167, 216
hysterial blindness, 214
hysterical excitement, 214
hysterical paralysis, 178, 179
hysterical reactions, 226
Iatrochemical School, 68
Iatromathematical School, 68
icons, 212
Imperial Courts-Martial, 56
Imperial Japanese Army, 204
Imperial Russian Army, 210
Indian houses, 162
Industrial Revolution, 11, 13, 14, 131, 162
infantry, 28
infection, 1, 49, 50, 51, 77, 84, 94, 95, 107, 141, 153, 159, 166, 183, 198, 228
infectious disease, 204, 205, 250, 251, 254; infectious disease hospital, 248, 253
infectious hepatitis, 250, 251
infectious ophthalmia, 142
infirmiers, 146
influenza, 42, 105, 211, 227; influenza epidemic of 1918, 219, 227
infrared sensing system, 27
inhalation injuries, 235
Inkermann, battle of, 152
inoculation, 97, 122, 152, 159
insane of war, 118
intranasal ketamine, 259
Instrumentarium Chirurgicum militare Austriacum, 90
interchangeability of parts, 14
internal combustion engine, 8, 17
International Congress of Military Medicine, 159
interrupter gear, 20
intestinal disease, 200
intravenous injection, 67, 68; intravenous (IV) line, 256; intravenous saline infusions, 216; saline replacements, 217
Introduction to General Military Surgery, 161
invention of printing, 44
Investigations into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases, 138
iodine, 138
ipecac, 167
Iran, 246
Iraq, 36, 165, 245, 255–59, 260, 262, 267, 268; military medical service, 268
Iraqi-U.S. conflict, 268
iron plating, 16
iron ramrod, 7
Israeli-Arab War, 268
Israeli Defense Force, 34
Israeli-PLO War, 34
Istanbul, Turkey, 153
Italy, 20, 21, 44, 45, 57, 100, 131, 158
IV bottle, 257
Ivan III of Russia, 69
Jackson, Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 175
James I of England, 75
Jameson, Horatio, 136
Japan, 21, 201, 202, 204, 207, 215; Japanese army, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 215; navy, 206
Japanese Imperial University, 203
Japanese Red Cross, 205
Jenner, Edward, 96
Jesuits, 80
jet-powered aircraft, 24
Jones, Sir Robert, 217
Jones, John, 121
Josephinum, 115
Journal de médecine militaire, 110
Kaga, 22
Kandahar, Afghanistan, 248
Kangaroo, HMS, 155
kaolin, 258
Katherine the Great, 69
Katyusha, 23
Keen, William W., 166
Kentucky rifle, 6
Kevlar flak jacket, 257
Kilmainham, 81
Kimpton-Brown waxed tubes, 218
King’s College, 121
Kircher, Athanasius, 66
Kunduz, 248
kriegslazarett, 231
Krupp “Big Bertha” howitzer, 15
Kure, Japan, 206
La Rochelle, siege of, 80
Laennec, René, 136
Lancet, The, 139
landing zone, 236
Landsteiner, Karl, 218
Larrey, Dominique-Jean, 51, 74, 135, 142–46, 151, 154, 169
Lasaer, Jesse, 137
latrines, 209
laudable pus, 49–50
laudanum, 167
laughing gas, 133
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 161
Lawson, Surgeon General Thomas, 168, 169
le Prestre, Sébastien, Marquis de Vauban, 81
lead poisoning, 42
lead shot, 49
leather sutures, 77
Leclerc, Gen. Charles-Victor-Emmanuel, 148
LeClerc, Daniel, 68
Lee, Gen. Robert E., 175
Lee-Enfield rifle, 13
Lenin, Vladimir, 245
leprosy, 71
lethality, 32–35
Letterman, Jonathan, 169, 182, 208; ambulance service, 169–71
letters of credit, 9
lever action rifle, 6
Lexington, USS, 22
Leyden, Germany, 117
Liao-tung Peninsula, Manchuria, 209
Liaoyang, battle of, 202
Library of the Surgeon General’s Office of the Army, 175–76
Libya, 18
lice, 212
ligation, 234
ligature, 53, 77, 78, 83, 132, 135, 136, 166
Lille, Belgium, 110
limb immobilization, 229
limb transplantation, 262
lime juice, 101
linear combat formations, 10
Lister, Joseph, 95, 136–39, 167, 176, 180, 182, 204; methods of, 220
Liston, Sir Robert, 133, 134, 135
litter bearers, 110, 144, 147, 150, 154, 159, 169, 181, 201, 220, 206, 222, 224, 231
litter-jeep, 233
Little, Nathan, 167
local paralysis, 214
locomotive torpedo, 16
Londinius, N., 99
London, England, 134
Long, Crawford, 134
Long Island, battle of, 119
Longmore, Sir Thomas, 135
longbows, 2
Lorenz rifle, 182
Louis IX of France, 58
Louis XIII of France, 80
Louis XVI of France, 143
Lovell, Joseph, 162
Low-profile hull, 22
Lyster bag, 227
M-110 gun, 26
M-163 Vulcan cannon, 26
M-2 90mm gun, 23
M-77 explosive rounds, 26
Macedonian phalanx, 2
Machaon, 99
machine gun, 12, 14, 18, 224, 247; machine gun war, 13, 19
MacLeod, George H. B., 34, 135
magazine-fed infantry rifle, 6
Magi, Bartolommeo, 53
Mainz, Germany, 45
Maison Royale de la Charité Chrétienne, 58, 80
Maizuru, Japan, 206
mal du pays, 178
malaria, 95, 103, 204, 219, 227, 237, 250, 252, 253; malaria fever, 137
Male Accident Ward at London Hospital, 137, 138
Malpighi, Marcello, 66
Maltese carts, 196
manured soil, 219
marching column, 29
Mark IV tank, 20
Marshall, Henry, 151
mass casualties, 176
mass production, 11–14
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 117, 118
matchlock, 5
Mathijsen, Antonius, 161
Maurice of Nassau, 72
Mauser rifle, 13
maxillo-facial injuries, 218
Maxim, Hiram, 13
Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, 56, 82
Maximilien, Duke of Sully, 80
Mayflower, 70
McClellan, Gen. George B., 168, 175
McGrigor, James, 148, 149, 151, 153
measles, 42
medevac helicopters, 236, 259; crews, 237
Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 176
medical: barges, 225; cards, 183; chests, 83, 118; dictionary, 68; discharge, 105; education, 90; humanists, 45; journals, 91; laboratories, 182; microscopy, 66; periodical literature, 69; publishing, 46, 89; record system, 176; regulating officer (MRO), 236; service corps, 194; treatment detachments, 254; wagons, 144
Medical Staff Corps, 157
Medicina Nautica: An Essay on the Diseases of Seamen, 103
Medicina Curiosa, 69
Medical Observations in Hungarian Camps, 72
Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire et Campagnes, 142
meningitis, 250
mental asylums, 177
mercurial fumigation, 71
mercurous chloride, 167
mercury, 75
Messerschmitt Me-262, 24
Messines, battle of, 217
Method of Treating Gunshot Wounds, 52
Metz, France, 110
Metz, battle of, 145
Meuse-Argonne offensive, 227
Mexican War, 148
Mexican War of 1846–1848, 32, 131, 134, 148, 153, 161, 162
Mi-24 Hind helicopter, 246
Mi-8MB (Bisector) helicopter, 249
micro-bleeding, 261
microbes, 137
Middle Ages, 1, 29, 33, 41, 44, 51, 53, 54, 65, 71, 78, 80, 88, 99, 123, 153; armies of, 1–3
migratory genocide, 246
military hospitals, 56, 83, 95, 114, 117, 141
military hygiene, 48, 105, 110, 204, 207
military medical officers, 132
military medical schools, 90, 123, 141
military pharmacy, 48
military psychiatry, 213, 227, 261; invention of, 76–79
military physician, 147, 129, 266
military surgeon, 34, 78, 77, 92, 93, 116, 117, 118, 147
mines, 16
Minié, Capt. Claude-Etienne, 152
Ministry of War, 112
Mirror of Anatomy, 46
Mississippi River, 170
Mitchell, Silas Weir, 167
mobile army surgical hospital (MASH), 233, 234, 235
mobile field hospitals, 95, 109
mobile laboratories, 228
mobile siege gun, 3
mobile surgical teams, 228
mobile surgical field hospitals, 171
modern warfare: beginnings, 8–18; casualties and lethality, 28–38; emergence of, 1–3; gunpowder revolution, 3–8; twentieth century war, 18–24; twenty-first century, 24–28
Mogadishu, battle of, 255–58
monasteries, 43, 58; monastic orders, 59
monocoque construction, 18
monoplane, 22
Monro, Alexander, I, 89, 94, 95
Mons, 222
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 96
Montpelier, France, 112
Moore, Surgeon General Samuel, 173, 175
morbid anatomy, 89
Moreau, Gen. Jean-Victor, 144
Morel, Etienne, 78
Morgan, John, 122
Morton, William T. G., 134
Mosby, John Singleton, 12
Moscow, Russia, 178
mosquito netting, 209
mounted knights, 2
Mower General Hospital, 173
Mukden, Manchuria, 207; battle of, 210; siege of, 202
mules, 224
mummy dust, 75
musket, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 48, 73, 75; musket ball, 49, 73, 75, 76; musketeer, 4–7
Muslims, 71, 247; armies of, 44
mustard gas, 19
muzzle-brake, 23
muzzle-loading cannon, 181
Nagasaki, Japan, 24
Naples, Italy, 57
Napoleon, 15, 13, 14, 19, 25, 112, 141, 145, 146, 152, 178; armies of, 11, 74
Napoleon III, 158
Napoleonic Wars, 29, 32, 51, 110, 140, 131, 132 181; Aboukir, battle of, 146; Austerlitz, battle of, 146; Austrian campaign, 146; Egyptian campaign, 141; Peninsular campaign, 147; Russian campaign; Spanish campaign, 244
nasopharyngeal airway, 256
nation states, 4, 9, 41, 83, 90, 122
National Assembly, 112
National Convention, 112
National Sanitation Bureau, 204
naval medicine, 99–104; naval physicians, 99, 101; naval surgeons, 97, 99, 104, 135
Nazification, 232
Nebelwerfer, 23
necessary suppuration of wounds, 50, 51, 143
necrotic damage, 257; tissues, 142
needle thoracostomy, 256
Nelson, Lord Horatio, 102; Nelson’s blood, 102
nervous diseases, 177
neurasthenia, 214
neurological profession, 177
neurosurgeon, 249
New Model Army, 83
Newton, Sir Isaac, 65, 66; Newtonian induction method, 87, 88
Nieuport fighter, 18
Nightingale, Florence, 153, 155
nineteenth century, medicine 129–33;
Amputation, 135–37; Anesthesia, 133–35; bacteriology and microscope, 137–40; British medicine, 147–50; flying ambulances, 143–47; military psychiatry, 176–79
nineteenth century, wars: American Civil War, 162–76; Crimean War, 152–53; England, 153–57; France, 157–60; Franco-Prussian War, 179–85; Mexican War, 161–62; Napoleonic wars, 140–43; Russia, 160–61; Waterloo, battle of, 150–52
non-penetrating head wound, 76
noninfectious disease, 205
Normandy Invasion, 230
Northern Ireland, 34; Troubles in, 35
nuclear: artillery shells, 24; reactors, 25; torpedoes, 24; weapons, tactical, 24, 25
nuclear-powered guided-missile frigate, 25
nurses, 172, 118, 153, 170, 173, 176, 205, 206, 211, 233, 225, 247, 259; African American, 171; anesthetists, 249, 259; matron, 118; naval nurses, 171; surgical nurses, 249
O’Halloran, Sylvester, 94
Observations on the Diseases of the Army, 105
Observations on the Diseases of Seamen, 103
Odyssey, 99
Ohio River, 170
oil of roses, 53
oil of vipers, 75
122mm gun, 23
operating gowns, 139
operating rooms, 180
ophthalmia, 141
opiates, 253
opium, 75, 78, 102, 133, 167; pills, 167
Ordnance Department, 154
orthopedics, 173, 217; orthopedic surgeon, 259
Ostend, Belgium, 151
Ottoman Turks, 41, 44; armies of, 3; empire of, 96
ox trek wagons, 196
Oxford Philosophical Society of England, 69
oxygen concentrator, 260
P-59 Aircomet, 24
Pacific theater (WW II), 238
pack howitzer, 19
paddlewheels, 16
painted face masks, 218
palm juice, 75
Panama, 245
panoramic sights, 15
Panzerfaust, 22
Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus, 50, 52
paratyphoid, 227
paratyphus, 250
Paré, Ambroise, 46, 47, 50–53, 77
paregoric, 167
Paris, France, 112, 134, 147; Paris Revolt of 1848, 135
Paris Medical Faculty, 48
Pashtun, 247
Passchendaele, battle of, 217
Pasteur, Louis, 137, 138, 176, 204
Pasteur Institute, 228
pathology, 89
pavilion-style hospital, 173, 176, 206
Pavlovna, Elena, 153
pediculosis, 72
penetrating head wounds, 94
Peninsular War, 149, 150, 152, 154, 211
pension system, 176
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, 246
percussion cap, 5
Percy, Baron Pierre-François, 135, 141–43; Percy’s Wurst, 144
periscope, 17
permanent military hospitals, 61
Perpignan, France, 81
Perry, Adm. Matthew, 201
Petersburg Admiralty Hospital, 117
pharmacist, 247
Pharmacopoeia for Use of Army Hospitals, 122
Philippine Insurrection, 32
physician’s assistant, 247
Physick, Philip, 136
physiological chemistry, 66, 67
pickling solution, 100
PIE (proximity, immediacy, and expectancy), 215
Pirogov, Nikolai Ivanovich, 153, 160, 161
pistol, 48
Plague Commission, 200
Plain, Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures, 121
platelets, 258
Plymouth colony, 122
pocket compendiums of anatomy, 46
Pope, Elijah, 134
Pope Julius II, 50
Port Arthur, 211, 212; siege of, 202, 203
portable firearms, 4
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 261
postmortem investigation, 89
Postnikoff, Peter V., 69
postoperative infection, 138
potassium permanganate, 167
Pott, Percival, 94
Pouteau, Claude, 94
powdered mummy’s flesh, 74
powdered sandalwood, 75
Prague, Czeck Repblic, 70
Pravaz, Charles, 136
precision-guided munitions, 266, 267
pressure dressing, 166
pressure sponges, 93
preventive medicine teams, 251
Priestley, Joseph, 133
primary amputation, 135, 142, 151, 176
Principia Mathematica, 65
principle of expectancy, 215
principle of forward treatment, 213
principle of immediacy, 215
principle of proximity, 213, 215
Principles of General Military Field Surgery, 161
printing press, 45
professional armies, 10
professional medical journals, 69
Progress in Medicine, 69
Protectorate, 81
Protestant Reformation, 43
Prussia, 79, 82, 89, 91, 95, 97, 112, 113, 150
Prussian Army, 83, 113, 182; medical service, 113; military medicine, 115
Prussian Dreyse needlegun, 13
psychiatric: casualties, 177, 212, 215, 225; debilitation, 179; examinations, 225; hospital, 214; screening, 178, 179
Psychiatric Institute, 260
psychiatrists, 213
psychologists, 213
psychosis, 178
public sanitation, 133
Puli-Khumri, Afghanistan, 248
pumpkins, 101
Purmann, Matthaeus, 72
putrefaction, 137
putrid fever, 96
Pyhrric victory, 269
Queen Victoria, 135
Queen Elizabeth I, 59
quinquereme, 99
radar, 24; detectors, 23; transceiver, 23
radio communication, 18
rag and bottle method, 134
Raglan, Lord, 154
railways, 13, 174, 170; corps, 183; officers, 14
rain worm oil, 75
Ramillies, France, 92
Ramon, Gaston, 228
rations, 92
recoil mechanisms, 12
Recommendations of Inoculation According to Baron Dimsdale’s Methods, 122
reconstructive surgery, 218
Red Army, 21
Red Cross, 159, 171, 175, 201, 205
Red Rover, USS, 171
Reed, Walter, 137
regimental aid stations, 159
regimental collecting stations, 233
regimental hospital, 108, 111, 151, 162, 171
regimental surgeons, 107, 108, 111, 113, 116, 118, 205
regular medical examinations, 91
regulation uniforms, 100
Regulations for the Order and Discipline of Troops of the U.S., 122
remittent typhoid fever, 95, 220
Renaissance, 41, 42, 45, 68, 71, 73, 74, 82, 83, 90; armies of, 54–58; medical challenges, 41–46, 48–53; reappearance of military surgeon, 46–48; medicine in renaissance armies, 53–61
renal insufficiency, 235
Renault FT tank, 20
respiration, 67
respiratory illness, 95
retractors, 216
Reval, Estonia, 117
Revolution of 1848, 157
Revolutionary War, 36, 121, 122
Reyer, K. K., 142
rheumatologist, 249
rhubarb, 75
Richmond, Virginia, 173
rifled breech loading artillery, 12, 15
Rio Grande River, 175
Robespierre, Maximilien, 140
rocket artillery, 23
Roentgen, Konrad, 199
Romans, 76
Romanov Dynasty, 69
Roman Army, 58
Roman ballista, 8
Roman medicine, 44; medical texts, 44; medical service, 51
Roman notion of preventive medicine, 59
Roman Navy, 99
Kronstadt naval base, Russia, 117
Röntgen, Wilhelm, 136
Roussel, J. 217; “transfuseur” apparatus, 217
Royal Army Medical Corps, 157
Royal College of Surgeons of London, 134
Royal Society of London, 69
Royal Styptic, 77
RPG, 247
rubber bulb syringe, 217
rubberized taffeta, 143
Rush, Benjamin, 122
Russell, Maj. Frederick F., 200
Russia, 20, 42, 69, 89, 115, 117, 132, 180, 202, 215, 222; army of, 152, 153, 160, 212, 213, 214, 220; imperial army, 202, 203; military medicine, 69
Russian Fourteenth Army, 253
Russian Ministry of Defense, 254
Russian Red Cross, 213
Russo-Japanese War, 15, 117, 177, 194, 201–10, 213–16, 251
saber, 4
sabot round, 22
Salmon, Thomas, 227
salmonella, 251
salted meat, 101
Sanctorius, Santorio, 67
sand filtration, 201
sanitary disease hospitals, 195
sanitary detachments, 206, 223
sanitary regulations, 154, 199
sanitary sections, 228
sanitäts kompanie, 231
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 148
Sardinian contingent, 152
sarissae, 2
Sasebo, Japan, 206
sassafras, 75
satellite communications, 28
Saxony, 97
scabies, 96
scavenger teams, 224
Schmidt, Joseph, 46
scholastic approach to medicine, 44, 51; scholasticism, 67, 88
schwerpunkt, 267
science of vital statistics, 68
scientific society, 68
scorpion oil, 75
Scotland, 117
Scott, Gen. Winfield, 134
Scottish Highlanders, 178
Scotus, Caspar, 67
screw propeller, 16
Scultetus, Johannes, 68
scurvy, 59, 101, 103, 168, 203, 212, 220
Scutari, Turkey, 155; hospital, 153
sea sponges, 166
seaplane, 18
secondary closure of wounds, 219
secondary hemorrhage, 136
secondary infection, 166
secondary intention, 53, 198, 216
Secret Academy, 68
Sedan, battle of, 202
self-inflicted wounds, 178, 212
self-propelled artillery gun, 23
Seminole War, 136
Sendai, Nagano, 204
Seneffe, battle of, 81
sepsis, 198
Service de Santé, 142
Sevastopol, battle of, 160
Seven Years War, 93, 96, 105, 106, 114
seventeenth century, 65–71; amputations, 77–78; field hygiene, 78–79; military hospitals, 79–83; trends in military medicine, 71–73; wound treatment, 73–77
75mm gun, 15
Several Chirugicall Treatises, 72
Sha-Ho, 211
shanghaied, 101
Sherman tank, 23
Shibasaburö, Baron Kitasato, 204
Shiloh, battle of, 170
Shindand, 248
ship cockpit, 101
ship convoy, 20
shipboard surgery, 101
shock, 52, 213, 214, 217, 229, 230, 235, 237, 256, 257, 259, 268
shoulder-fired antiaircraft missile, 28
shrapnel, 15, 102, 104, 197, 198, 216, 255, 258
Sick and Wounded Board, 97
siege cannon, 15
Sieur, Inspector General Hercule, 140
Sikorsky Bolshoi, 18
Sisters of the Holy Cross, 174
Sisters of St. Joseph, 174
skin infections, 237
sledges, 224
slop-shop surgeons, 142
sloped armored glacis, 23
smallpox, 42, 71, 96, 97, 102, 118, 120, 159, 219, 220, 227; inoculation, 96, 175
smart bombs, 266
sniper fire, 254
Snow, John, 135
Société Royale de Médicine, 112
Society for the Aid of Wounded Soldiers, 159
sodium citrate, 218
sodium phosphate, 218
soldier’s heart, 178
Solferino, battle of, 158
solid ball shot, 8
Somme, battle of, 29, 217, 222
Soubeiran, Eugène, 134
Soviet-Afghan War, 245
Soviet Army, 21, 248, 251; battle physicians, 51; medical system, 248
Soviet Union, 20, 25, 245, 252
Spandau Gate, 113
Spanish-American War, 139, 162, 184, 194, 199, 200, 219
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
splinters, 101
St. Quentin, battle of, 57
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 173, 177
Stalin, Joseph, 21
standard caliber ammunition, 73
standing army, 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, 19, 181
starvation, 195
stationary hospitals, 81, 196, 201, 205
steam burns, 104
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 bearers, 155, 182, 195, 196, 223
strike aircraft, 27
Styrofoam blood box, 237
submachine gun, 22
sugar of lead, 75
suicide, 225
sulfonamides, 232, 228, 229; sulfa drugs, 228, 233
sulfur fumigation, 99
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
Swiss Army, 83; military medical service, 55, 56, 82, 83
Sylvius, Franciscus, 67
syphilis, 71
Syracuse Medical College, 172
systematic realism, 180
T-34 Calliope, 23
Tactical Combat Casualty Care program, 255, 256, 258
Tangier, Morocco, 79
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
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
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
triangle sights, 23
tribal invasions, 44
Trident II, 25
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
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
Vampire, 24
van Gräfe, Karl Ferdinand, 136
van Helmont, Jean-Baptiste, 67
van Leeuwenhoek, Antonj, 66
variable timed fuse, 23
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 137
vascular surgery, 234, 237, 250
vector control teams, 251
venereal disease, 96, 173, 209, 229, 237
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
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 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 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
Whitney, Eli, 14
whooping cough, 42
wick, 5
Willis, Thomas, 67
Wilson’s Creek, battle of, 169
Winthrop, John, 70
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
Ypres, Third battle of, 217, 224
zinc oxide, 75
zone of destruction, 26