Between Flesh and Steel (58 page)

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

Lind, James,
101
,
103
,
104

linear tactics,
6
,
32
,
266

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 XIV of France,
77
,
109

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

mental collapse,
176
,
213

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

Metz, siege of,
59
,
60

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

microphotography,
174
,
176

microbes,
137

microscope,
66
,
137
–40,
174

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 sanitation,
59
,
185

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 artillery,
10
,
92

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

Moldova,
245
,
253

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

morphine sulfate,
167
,
258

Morton, William T. G.,
134

Mosby, John Singleton,
12

Moscow, Russia,
178

mosquito netting,
209

mounted knights,
2

Mower General Hospital,
173

mujahideen,
247
,
253

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

Mussolini, Benito,
20
,
21

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 in arms,
11
,
19

nation states,
4
,
9
,
41
,
83
,
90
,
122

national armies,
41
,
60

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

neurologists,
177
,
213
,
261

neurology,
177
,
179

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

nitrous oxide,
133
,
134

non-penetrating head wound,
76

noninfectious disease,
205

Normandy Invasion,
230

Northern Ireland,
34
; Troubles in,
35

nostalgia,
177
,
178

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