Confederate Navy Medicine

Medicine and the Navy

Medicine and the Navy

oetiological implications in discussing their views on schizophrenia, but they make it equally clear that the basic disturbance in this group of disorders is, in their opinion, something that damages the ability to differentiate the self from the environment. They point to analogous findings by Piaget, who described the inability young children have in distinguishing self from not-self, to what...

Aerospace medicine and Project Mercury Navy participation.

T H E UNITED STATES Navy was a proud participant in the vast preparation and the farflung operational activities which, in bold exhibitions of professional skill, culminated in our first manned space fl.ights. In terms of magnitude, this represented the largest concentrated effort the Navy has ever put forth in a peaceful enterprise. In terms of sacrifice, many important tasks were temporarily ...

Genitourinary medicine and surgery in Nelson's navy.

Surgeons of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic and revolutionary wars, between 1793 and 1815, were solely responsible for all health care of the officers, men, and boys of their ships. This paper examines the genitourinary medicine and surgery encountered by the naval surgeons at the time of Nelson. Primary sources are examined to explore the presentation, case mix, and management of genitour...

A history of medicine in the early U.S. navy

of the decline of the midwife, although bodies have been somewhat neglected. Since the overwhelming majority of births were normal, the question arises, how did an instrument designed for facilitating abnormal births make so much difference to the conduct of normal births? It has been suggested that the forceps broke the association of the obstetric surgeon with death but Wilson shows that the ...