Surgeon to Soldiers: Diary and Records of the Surgical Consultant, Allied Force Headquarters, World War II"Drawing on extensive diary and records he kept while serving as a consultant to American surgeons in the North African-Mediterranean theater of operations, Dr. Edward D. Churchill ... [writes about] combat surgery, the progress in military medicine during World War II, and wound management and mismanagement ... in this ... account of his experiences"--Jacket. |
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NATIONAL RESEARCH COMMITTEES | 3 |
THERMAL BURNS | 12 |
YOURE IN THE ARMY | 26 |
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48th Surgical 77th Evacuation Hospital abdominal Algiers ambulance American amputation arrived August Battalion battle casualties Bizerte blood transfusion bomb British British First Army burns campaign Caserta Churchill civilian clearing station closed closure combat compound fractures débridement delayed diary Division dressing equipment Evac excision experience Field Hospital Fifth Army Forsee forward area French Gafsa gas gangrene German headquarters hemorrhage II Corps infection injury Italian Italy Lieutenant Colonel lung Major Medical Corps medical officers ment military Naples nerve night North Africa operation patients penicillin Perrin Long pital plane plasma platoon problems procedure prostitutes resection secondary suture Seventh Army shock Sicily skin soldier splint staff Station Hospital Stayer sulfa sulfa drugs sulfanilamide sulfonamides surgeons Surgical Consultant surgical teams suture Tebessa tent thoracic tion tissue treatment troops truck Tunisia unit venereal disease ward whole blood World World War II wound surgery