First Regimental Flag of Iowa

Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers

Now that regimental officers are taught hygiene and that in Field Marshall Sir E. Wood's words the Army doctor is regarded as a " trusted staff officer to advise their chiefs how to guard the troops against the originating and spreading of disease," and when soldiers like Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien write an introduction to books like this, there is hope that in future wars the British Army may be ...

First Record of Freckled Madtom (Noturus nocturnus) in Iowa

Regimental Hospital, 23rd Bo. L. I. Case of Mercurialism

It may not be uninteresting to the renders of this journal for me to record a singular case ot mercurialism which came under observation in this hospital. A sepoy, aged 25 years, was admitted for chancre, which at first was of a sloughing character, attended with paraphimosis. A lead lotion was employed for the latter complication, after the reduction of which, black-wash was the topical applic...

Regimental doctoring in a battalion of the King's African Rifles.

THE following account is based on eighteen months' experience as R.M.O. of the 6th Battalion K.A.R. stationed at Dar es Salaam, Tang'anyika, East Africa. Dar es Salaam, the coastal capital of Tanganyika, is situated almost directly opposite Zanzibar Island. Its Arabic name means the "Haven of Peace" and despite the hustle and bustle of the modern world that centres round the new deep water bert...

Thomas Crawford, regimental medical officer in the Crimea, 1855.

Thomas Crawford was an Ulsterman, born in the year 1824 at Dumbrain, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan. His family had their origins in Ayrshire and came from Scotland in 1698 after the main plantation of Ulster. Crawford studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated there in 1845. On February 18th, 1848, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the 51st Regiment of Foot (Kings Own Light Infantry) and saw serv...