The Sinews of War: Army Logistics, 1775-1953

The Army Medical Department 1775–1818

Kemp neatly calls, the "fantasia", expressed by the painting of the Last Supper in which the perspectival illusion is interestingly explained. In the scientific field, similarly inspired ingenuity is found in Leonardo's geometrical transformations. The physiological truth so beautifully symbolized in the Leda and the Swan and the portrait of a Lady on a Balcony (the Mona Lisa) is here interpret...

Causes of Death of Prisoners of War during the Korean War (1950-1953)

PURPOSE This study aimed at analyzing the causes of death of prisoners of war (POWs) during the Korean War (1950-1953) who fought for the Communist side (North Korea and the People's Republic of China). In 1998, the United States Department of Defense released new information about the prisoners including, 7,614 deaths of the POW during the Korean War. The data on the causes of death of the POW...

Henry Marshall (1775-1851) and the health of the British Army.

ALTHOUGH Dr. Henry Marshall wrote extensively in the post-Waterloo era about the health of soldiers, relatively little has been written about his influence on military medicine." Marshall was a respected naturalist, a gifted historian, the first medical officer in the British army to compile vital statistics of troops garrisoned throughout the Empire,' and he was the foremost early Victorian ad...

Army nursing service goes to war.

The first contingent of New Zealand Army Nursing Service sisters, with their Matron-in-Chief Hester Maclean (seated centre, left of the captain), en route to the war, on the Rotorua, in May 1915. Hester Maclean I n 1914, Hester Maclean was a highly influential New Zealand nursing leader – assistant inspector general of hospitals, matron-in-chief of a proposed army nursing service, and owner and...

Us Army Psychiatry Legacies of the Vietnam War