Between Flesh and Steel (57 page)

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
202

Ghent, Belgium,
106
,
151

Glogau, Germany,
115

Goercke, Johann,
181

goniometer,
15

Gorgas, William,
137

Gospitali,
116
,
117

Goto, Masanao,
204

Government Hospital for the Insane,
177

graduate wonders,
232

Grant, Gen. Ulysses S.,
169

grapeshot,
8
,
48

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

grenade,
76
,
197
,
202
,
206

ground attack fighter,
23

guided torpedo,
16

Guild of Barbers in England,
48

Guild of Surgeons,
48

Guillemeau, Jacques,
78

Gulf War,
254
,
255
,
257
,
267

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

harnessmaker's silk,
136
,
166

Harvard College,
70
,
172

Harvey, William,
52
,
66

hauffen
,
56

hauptverbandplatz
,
231

head wounds,
92

health certificates,
99

heart disease,
250

heart surgeon,
249

heart ventricles,
66

heat exhaustion,
209

heat stroke,
212
,
250
,
255

heimweh
,
178

helicopter,
234
,
235
,
236
,
237
,
258
,
267

Hellfire antitank missile,
27

helmet,
75
,
76
,
83

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,
45
,
68
,
97
,
117

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 artillery,
4
,
7

horse cavalry,
8

horse-drawn artillery,
38

horsehair,
136
,
166

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

Hundred Years' War,
2
,
3

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

Iliad
,
33
,
34
,
37
,
99

immunization,
193
,
200

Imperial Courts-Martial
,
56

Imperial Guard,
146
,
147
,
158

Imperial Japanese Army,
204

Imperial Russian Army,
210

impressment,
101
,
147

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

insanity,
178
,
179

intranasal ketamine,
259

Instrumentarium Chirurgicum militare Austriacum
,
90

insurgency warfare,
245
,
254

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

iron ships,
13
,
16
,
104

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

jail fever,
96
,
120

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

Kabul, Afghanistan,
246
,
248

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

Klebs, Edwin,
138
,
139

Koch, Robert,
138
,
139
,
204

Kunduz,
248

Korea,
34
,
165
,
238
,
255
,
267

Korean War,
233
,
258

kriegslazarett,
231

Krupp “Big Bertha” howitzer,
15

Kure, Japan,
206

La Rochelle, siege of,
80

Laennec, René,
136

Lancet, The
,
139

landing zone,
236

Landsknechte,
56
,
57
,
82

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

Laupen, Battle of,
2
,
3
,
54

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