Doctors in Blue

FIGURE 6.2. Incidents of Illness per 1,000 White and BlackTroops, Union Army Source The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1, Medical Volume [Washington GPO, 1888], pp. 6-77 passim. The figure for camp fevers is a compilation of continued, typho-malaria, and malarial fevers. See George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue, p. 240). 

This estimate came from Samuel Ramsey, chief clerk for the U.S. Army Medical Department. For details see George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War (1952 reprint. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press), p. 178 and Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades American Women and the Civil War (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 52. 

In the North, Mother Newcomb nursed her men back to health with her own syrup. See Adams, Doctors in Blue, p. 182. Her memoirs are available in Four Years of Personal Reminiscences of the War (Chicago H. S. Mills, 1893). 

George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue (1952 reprinted. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 1996), p. 240. 

One of the Farben drugs, Methylene Blue, had been developed in the hope of curing people who had typhus. Dr. Mertens department at Leverkusen had sent several hundred doses of this unproved drug to faraway Auschwitz. There the shipment was received by a young doctor named Vetter who had lately worked for Mertens. Vetter had chosen healthy concentration camp inmates and injected the typhus disease, which struck the veins like a bolt of fire. When the disease had reached its delirious stage, he had injected the drug. Vetter had sent a full report to Dr. Mertens. 

The Doctor, an apology still inked in the blue of his beautiful eyes, patted his young friend s shoulder. Fitz. He remembered the way. ... 

Good, yes, don t neglect your studies. The Doctor left Fitz with a friendly pat, then sprinted down the steps and off along the shore for the TARDIS, standing some distance away like a lonely blue beach hut. See you in the fifty-first century he called back in his wake. 

Two futures confronted one another across the map table. In the Doctor s eyes, blue and fathomless, Fitz knew there was a sea of possibilities, inviting exploration. In Razum Kinzhal s, each pupil was ringed with a fiery corona, symbolic of a will that threatened to eclipse all possibilities bar one the vision of a world on fire. 

The assistance of several postdoctoral and doctoral fellows must be acknowledged in particular, Dr. Patrick McCarthy for his major contribution to the chapter on techniques for measuring lipid peroxidation Dr. Parves Haris for his assistance and expertise in the preparation of the section on Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy, Mr. George Paganga for the section on the preparation of low density lipoproteins and Dr. Paul Eggleton for the preparation of the section on the nitro blue tetrazolium assay. 

Now, what could eye exams possibly have to do with blood pressure, you might reasonably ask Well, it turns out that the eyes may be the window through which to look for potential future hypertension. The little arterioles that supply blood to the retina apparently get narrower before blood pressure elevations proceed to hypertension an eye doctor can spot the narrowing before blood pressure goes up at all. An investigation in Sydney, Australia, called the Blue Mountain Eye Study found that people with narrowed blood vessels in the eyes were twice as likely as people with... 

There is nothing a doctor dreads more than seeing an emphysema patient walk or wheelchair into his office. They are usually thin (How can you eat, if you can t breathe ), blue in the face, gasping for air and thoroughly exhausted simply from trying to stay alive-a perpetually drowning patient. 

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