Between Flesh and Steel (60 page)

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

screw tourniquet,
53
,
78
,
93

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

shell fragments,
77
,
92

shell shock,
214
,
226
,
261

Sherman tank,
23

Shibasaburö, Baron Kitasato,
204

shigellosis,
250
,
251

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 bay,
102
,
104

Sick and Wounded Board,
97

siege cannon,
15

siege mortars,
3
,
4
,
19

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

smokeless powder,
15
,
216

smoothbore cannon,
4
,
15

sniper fire,
254

Snow, John,
135

Société Royale de Médicine,
112

Society for the Aid of Wounded Soldiers,
159

sodium citrate,
218

sodium hypochlorite,
167
,
216

sodium phosphate,
218

soldier's heart,
178

Solferino, battle of,
158

solid ball shot,
8

Somalia,
245
,
254

Somme, battle of,
29
,
217
,
222

Soubeiran, Eugène,
134

South Africa,
194
,
198

Soviet-Afghan War,
245

Soviet Army,
21
,
248
,
251
; battle physicians,
51
; medical system,
248

Soviet Union,
20
,
25
,
245
,
252

Soviets,
231
,
22
,
246
,
255

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