Commanding Indian Military Hospital, Pishin. About midnight lst-2ncl February, 1928, two men went to sleep in a small room (8 X J feet) in this cantonment, with the door and the window closed and a pan of steam coal burning inside. As they did not get up by 9 a.m. next day (2nd February, 1928) and noisy breathing was heard from their room, with a smell of poisonous gas emanating from the chinks...

A series of 12 neck space infections admitted to a military hospital in Germany in a 12 month period are presented. This represents an incidence of 1:1000 for the age group studied. The reappearance of the retropharyngeal abscess which has been rare since the widespread use of antibiotics, along with the generally high incidence of this group of infections, is probably a result of the more disc...

Last autumn, as you will remember, men invalided with dysentery from the Peninsula of Gallipoli came in large numbers into English military hospitals. As they grew better they had much to tell of Mudros and of the fighting on the northern shores of the Dardanelles. Their stories called up memories of another and more successful expedition which gathered in the great Bay of Lemnos three thousand...

THE purpose of this paper is to establish the incidence of osteochondritis dissecans in the age group in which it is known to occur most commonly. In the services, the majority of men are ag~d 18-30 years and thereby constitute this age group. The total number of men reporting sick, whose signs and symptoms required a radiograph of a particular joint, were taken as the index for com.parison. Fo...

A large portion of the casualties admitted to military hospitals on the battlefield in Iraq consists of children, of whom 13% had burns. The U.S. Army Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Baghdad, faced with an influx of such patients, successfully transferred selected burned children by commercial airlines to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, Massachusetts (SHC-B). The authors aimed to...

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is endemic in the Middle Eastern countries. New cases are emerging in areas previously free of the disease. In Jordan, the diagnosis of cases during the 1960s and 1970s was mainly reported in military hospitals in Amman. Endemicity of the disease was ascertained after reporting a total of 524 cases during 1973-1978. RESULTS: Leishmania major and Leishman...

Anecdotally expressed concern over the military/civilian interface regarding infectious disease notification, and the current review of procedures in both civilian and military settings prompted this study. Its aim was to quantify knowledge of doctors involved in the provision of care to Army personnel and their dependants in the United Kingdom regarding infectious disease reporting and make re...

There is a profound and permanent connection between Franciscans and Slavonski Brod (formerly known as Brod na Savi). It has lasted for centuries, as Franciscans were present in the town even during the Turkish occupation. They were the first town pastors after its independence from the Turks in 1691 and are present today with churches, monasteries, and the Franciscan High School, which opened ...

OBJECTIVES Previously, we reported on the use of emergency tourniquets to stop bleeding in war casualties, but virtually all the data were from adults. Because no pediatric-specific cohort of casualties receiving emergency tourniquets existed, we aimed to fill knowledge gaps on the care and outcomes of this group by surveying data from a trauma registry to refine device designs and clinical tra...

Recorded medical research in the Sudan commenced with the foundation of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial, College, Khartoum, in February1903. The objectives of these laboratories were as follows: To promote technical education. a) To promote the study, bacteriologically b) and physiologically, of tropical disorders especially the infective diseases of both man and beast...