Medical Department, U.S. Army

McFarling, D.A., Project Director. LSD Follow-Up Study Report. U.S. Army Medical Department. U.S. Army Health Services Command. 1980. 

LSD was among the psychochemicals tested at Edgewood, but its effects were not within the purview of the National Research Council s evaluations. Effects of LSD on 741 soldiers tested at Edgewood are described in a report by the U.S. Army Medical Department and the U.S. Army Health Services Command, issued in February 1980.2... 

Wolff L, Adkins T. Tourniquet problems in war injuries. The Bulletin of the U.S. Army Medical Department 1945 87 77-84. 

Agazio, J., Gurney, C. (2001). Through the eyes of the medic. U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, 16-23. 

FIGURE 1.2. Surgeon General William A. Hammond s ambitious reforms of a tradition-bound U.S. Army Medical Department earned the talented administrator a court-martial. Exonerated of all charges years later, Hammond nevertheless rose to prominence in medical circles and was the founder of the American Neurological Association. From Harper s Weekly, 1863. Illustration courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division. 

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. 

The problems of the U. S. Army Medical Department are thoroughly covered in Mary C. Gillett, The Army Medical Department, 1818-1865 (Washington, DC GPO, 1987), chapter 8, esp. pp. 153-162. 

Register and Prescription Book of the 110th Regiment, N.Y.S.V. on inside cover of U.S. Army Medical Department, Register and Prescription Book, June-Aug., 1864, 152nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. John C. Williamson Papers. BV 959, Box 2, Series 2331. Ohio Historical Society Archives, Columbus, Ohio. 

Mutch E, Blain PG, Williams FM Interindividual variations in enzymes controlling organophosphate toxicity in man. Hum Exp Toxicol 11 109-116, 1992 Noyes H Internet telemedicine saves woman s life (news). The Mercury (U.S. Army Medical Department, Houston, TX) 24 6,1996 Prick JJG, Smitt WGS, Muller L Thallium Poisoning. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1955 Reed D, Crawley J, Faro SN, et al Thallotoxicosis acute manifestations and sequelae. JAMA 183 516-522,1963... 

Fig. 3-23. The figure legend that was published with this photograph in the official history of the U.S. Army Medical Department in World War I reads Gross changes in larynx and trachea of a soldier who died four days after inhalation of mustard gas. Purulent secretions in the smaller bronchi rather than at the glottis caused the respiratory failure that lead to the death of this soldier. The efficacy of tracheal suction in clearing the airway appears not to have been widely known during World War I. Reprinted from Weed FM, ed. Medical Aspects of Gas Warfare. Vol 14. In Ireland MW, ed. The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War. Washington, DC Government Printing Office 1926 Plate 10.

It is obvious that use of the chemical weapon remains possible. This textbook documents this concern on the part of the U.S. Army Medical Department. I therefore believe that it is the responsibility of the U.S. military medical community to prepare to operate in a chemical environment. Fighting a chemical war will markedly hinder our medical, tactical, and operational capacity (problems well discussed in this textbook), and cause long-term postexposure residual effects. Thus, students of this topic may still find relevance in the words that Sir Charles Bell (who was a surgeon at Waterloo in 1815) wrote in 1812 ... 

Echelon V medical care, provided by hospitals in the ZOI and CONUS, is the most comprehensive care available within the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) HSS system. Echelon V hospitals also provide all the types of medical care found at lower echelons. 

U.S. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT MASS CASUALTY TREATMENT PRIORITIES... 

Level I composed of IRF nonmedical installation personnel. The local commander appoints the IRF members and ensures they are provided initial and ongoing training as described in Department of the Army Pamphlet 50-6, Chemical Accident or Incident Response and Assistance (CAIRA) Operations. The Office of The Surgeon General and the U.S. Army Medical Department Center and... 

A. M. Lloyd et al.. Field evaluation of commercial off-the-shelf spatial repellents against the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Skuse), and the potential for use during deploymenL The U.S. Army Medical Department Journal, April-June, 80, 2013. 

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