Army doctor

The procedures followed in this crisis were remarkably similar to scenarios designed forty years earlier by our own Army doctors. Many of the readers of this book were very young, or not yet bom, during that tense, uncertain time in history. After the defeat of the Axis powers in 1945, the Cold War, as Churchill named it, was rooted in the growing mutual distrust between America and the Soviet Union. 

All members of NDRC Division 10 were invited to volunteer for work in Panama. I volunteered to go to Panama, but Noyes, aware of my health problem, turned me down. Captain Jake Nolen and Professor Dickinson offered me the position of Head of the meteorology department of the Dugway Proving Ground Mobile CWS Field Unit of the United States Army. What a fancy title Captain Nolen placed conditions on this offer I should report directly to him, and I must take a physical examination every three months from the two army doctors on duty at Bushnell. 

Atomic weapons tests in the South Pacific in 1946 exposed 40 000 US Navy personnel to radioactivity and an Army doctor s diary describing the incident hit the best seller list in 1948. In April, 1953, Geiger counters in the City of Troy, New York, recorded substantial radioactive fallout from tests that had been conducted in Nevada 36 h earlier. News reports of the incident provoked widespread fear and concern. 

Working against the clock to build weapons that might end a long and bloody war strained hfe at Los Alamos but also heightened it. I always pitied our Army doctors for their thankless job, comments Laura Fermi ... 

In 1877, Louis Pasteur discovered that bacteria were able to inhibit the growth of other germs. For this phenomenon, the French Army doctor Jean Antoine ViUemin (1828-1892) coined the term Antibios . 

The father of the modem placebo movement is Henry Beecher, who defined the use of placebos as a medical treatment supplementing the use of an active substance in a 1955 article. He became interested in the placebo effect when he worked as an army doctor in the battles of World War II. Severely injured soldiers were sometimes injected with a solution of salt instead of morphine, which was often in short supply, yet they reported a decrease in pain and felt generally better. Beecher proved similar benefits can be achieved in the treatment of a number of different illnesses. 

Dutrochet (N on, Poitou, 14 November 1776-Paris, 4 February 1847), an army doctor in the Spanish campaign (1808-9), lived from 1809 till 1831 in Chateau-Renault, Touraine, then in Paris. 

Like many industrialists in the Progressive Era, Herbert Dow believed, or at least espoused the belief, that most industrial accidents were the result of worker carelessness. Although he had not shown much remorse about earlier plant accidents, Dow seemed truly distressed by the rate of injuries among his employees in the mustard gas plant. He noted at least two minor injuries every day, and the accidents led Dow to establish hospital facilities for the victims of the gas burns. The hospital consisted of two refurbished rooms in the Dow Company s education building. A local doctor attended the hospital until an army doctor, Lester L. Roos, arrived at the end of May. Local nurses staffed the hospital rooms... 

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