Psychiatry decided to train selected A.T.S. Officers as Military Social Workers in various psychiatric hospitals. The following is a brief survey of the work done since that time till March, 1946, in the largest military hospital dealing with psychoneurotic cases. The range of cases dealt with has been varied but marital and family difficulties have been amongst the most frequent and difficult....

OBJECTIVE Our objective in this report was to describe the epidemiologic features of and workload associated with pediatric admissions to 12 US Army military hospitals deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS The Patient Administration Systems and Biostatistics Activity database was queried for all local national patients <18 years of age who were admitted to deployed Army hospitals in Afgha...

Submitted by: Mehmet T. Koylu, MD, Gokcen Gokce, MD, Yusuf Uysal, MD, Engin Araz, MD, Omer Orkun, DVM, Ayse Cakmak, DVM, Serpil Nalbantoglu, DVM. From the Department of Ophthalmology (Koylu), Tatvan Military Hospital, Bitlis, and the Department of Ophthalmology (Gokce), Kayseri Military Hospital, Kayseri, and the Departments of Ophthalmology (Uysal), Microbiology (Araz), Gulhane Military Medici...

During the 1914-1918 war there was, from year to year, a mounting number of deaths among the inpatients of some (but not all) English asylums. By the beginning of 1916 the Board of Control, the small government office responsible for offering guidance to managers and monitoring the proper running of asylums in England and Wales, was perturbed and puzzled by the figures.' The most important func...

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a simple, relatively safe and cost effective means of establishing enteral access for patients requiring long term nutritional support. PEG has several advantages over surgical gastrostomy and should be considered the procedure of choice for long term enteral therapy in appropriate patients. At the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital (QEMH) between Jun...

contributions of our military families wherever they may be around the world. As we go about the routine business of our lives, it is easy to forget the daily hardships, inconveniences, separations, and disruptions that our service men and women and their families endure to protect America. These dedicated individuals will affirm that it is their families who invariably sustain them and warm th...

The Royal Army Medical College was founded in 1860. The staff included a Professor of Military Medicine, a Professor of Military Surgery, a Professor of Military Hygiene and a Professor of Pathology. The main role of the Professor of Surgery is to participate in the teaching of young medical officers in those aspects of surgery particularly relevant to the military community and also to partici...

The use of chloroform during the Crimean War was determined by the opinions and experience of medical staff and by the availability of chloroform on the battlefields and in the military hospitals. This paper will begin by reviewing medical opinion on the value of chloroform in military surgery at the start of the war, and after examining the availability and use of chloroform during the war, it...

EARLIER HISTORY OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IN THE SUDAN 1903-1948 ORGANIZED MEDICAL RESEARCH in the Sudan, which was a development of the early years of this century at a time when proper medical administration in the country was hardly in existence, owed its inception to the initiative of a great humanitarianMr. (later Sir) Henry S. Wellcome-the founder of what is known today as the Wellcome Foundati...

Case Reports Case 1. Myopathica Atrophica.-A yeoman of signals aged 22 years was admitted to the Military Hospital, Gibraltar, on August 31, 1943. He complained of having difficulty in facing the light for 10 days. The eyes ached -but did not water, and had become bloodshot in the last 2 months, but especially in the last week when he attended the American hospital at Londonderry for conjunctiv...