Between Flesh and Steel (55 page)

block tourniquet,
78

Bloemfontein, South Africa,
195

blood: banks,
232
; cross matching,
199
; gases,
260
; groups,
218
; plasma,
237
; pressure,
217
; products,
230
; stored,
228

blood transfusions,
199
,
216
–18;
228
,
230
; reactions,
237
; specialists,
249
; technology of,
232
; teams,
228

Blood Transfusion Service,
228

blood types,
218
; type matching,
218

blood, waxed transfer tubes,
218

blood, whole
237
,
258

blood, universal donor,
237

bloodless surgery,
136

bloodletting,
93

BM-21 rocket launcher,
26

board of medical examiners,
118

body armor,
34
,
75
,
76
,
83
,
247
,
266

body snatchers,
194

Boers,
196
,
197
; Boer War,
13
,
184
,
194
–201,
206
,
211
,
222
; Second Boer War,
157

Boerhaave, Herman,
87

Bofors 40mm cannon,
23
,
27

boiling oil,
50
–52

Bolshevik regime,
245

bolt action rifle,
6

bomber,
20
,
22

booby traps,
235

Book of Surgery
,
50

Borelli, Giovanni,
67

boric acid,
216

Borodino, battle of,
142
,
202

Bosnia-Herzegovina,
245

Boston,
96
,
118

boxcars,
222

Boyle, Robert,
66

Boylston, Zabdiel,
96

Bradley M2,
28

Bradwell, Stephen,
68

brain,
177

brain trauma,
260
,
261

Brambilla, Giovanni Alessandro,
90

brancardiers
,
144

breathing canisters,
226

breech-loading artillery,
12

breech-loading rifle,
6
,
181

Breslau, Germany,
115

brine,
100

Britain,
225

British Army,
12
,
91
,
97
,
100
,
102
,
104
,
105
,
108
,
148
,
195
,
217
,
222

British Army doctors,
198
,
199

British Army Medical Corps,
154
,
195
,
223

British Navy,
100
,
102

British Royal Flying Corps,
18

Brocklesby, Richard,
105

bromine solution,
166
,
167

Brown Bess,
6

Brown, William,
122

Bruges, Belgium,
151

Brunschwig, Hieronymus,
50

Brussels, Belgium
150
,
151

BTR-80,
254

bubonic plague,
41
,
42
,
70

Buck, Gordon,
167
,
174

Bulgars,
155

bullet,
1
,
5
,
73
,
77
,
78
,
92
,
165
,
198
,
203
; detectors,
199
; metal jacket,
197
; soft-lead,
197
; wounds,
94

Bunker Hill, battle of,
118

burns,
49
,
50
; burn injuries,
235
,
255

butterfly mines,
246

by expectation,
165

Byzantine Empire,
3

Byzantium,
44

C-ration,
251

Calais, France,
81

calcium hypochlorite,
227

caliber measurement,
7

calomel,
167

Cambrai, battle of,
20

camp followers,
82
,
209

camphor,
203

canister,
8
,
48
,
76
,
163

cannon,
3
,
5
,
48
; cannon balls,
101

capped catheter,
257

carbolic acid,
136
,
138
,
139
,
203

Cardinal Richelieu,
80
,
81

cardiorespiratory depressants,
259

Carlisle, England,
138

Carolingian Dynasty,
58

Carrel, Alexis,
217

Carrel-Dakin solution,
216
,
217

Carroll, James,
137

Cartagena Harbor, Spain,
103

cast bronze cannon,
4

cast armor,
23

cast artillery,
7

casual disorder,
79

casualties,
28
–32; burden of,
92
; effect,
26
; rates,
93
,
152
; evacuation of,
221

casualty clearing stations,
146
,
201
,
219
,
228
–30

catgut,
136

Cathcart, Lord,
103

catheters,
259

Catholic Church,
43

Catholic League,
82

Catholic Sisters of Mercy,
171
,
174

cautery,
8
,
50
,
51
,
52
,
77
,
132
,
166

cavalry,
4
,
8

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius,
52
,
53

central military hospital,
248

chain shot,
8

Chain, Ernst B.,
229

Channel Fleet,
101

Charles I of France,
79

Charles II of England,
69

Charles the Bold,
57

Charles V,
52

Charles V of Germany,
56

Charles VII of France,
56

charpie,
93

Chechnya,
253
,
254

Chelsea, England,
81

chemical munitions,
268

chemical suits,
255

Chemical Warfare Service,
225
,
226

chemical weapons,
255

Chevaliers de l'Étoile,
58

Chickamauga, battle of,
173

child mortality,
71

Chimborazo Hospital,
173

Chirurgie d'armée
,
105

chlorine,
138
,
201

chlorine gas,
19

chloroform,
133
,
134
,
135
,
156
,
157
,
161
,
166
,
167
,
175

cholera,
155
,
168
,
182
,
204
,
205
,
219
,
220
,
250
,
254

Chopart, François,
89

Christie suspension,
23

circular bit saw,
76

circulation of the blood,
66

City of Memphis
,
170

Civil War,
5
,
6
,
8
,
12
,
11
,
14
,
18
,
19
,
32
,
131
,
136
,
157
,
161
,
162
,
166
,
167
,
173
,
176
,
178
,
182
,
196
,
205
,
208
,
211
,
213
,
217
,
225
,
231
,
256

Clarke, William E.,
134

clearing station,
82
,
111
,
171
,
196
,
216
,
223
,
224
,
228
,

clerico-secular social order,
41
,
42

clinical amphitheater,
71

clinical instruction,
68

clinical observation,
88

clinical thermometers,
216

clip-fed rifle,
6

Clowes, William,
78

coagulants,
230

coastal steamers,
170

Cober, Tobias,
72

Code de médecine militaire
,
105

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste,
69

Cold War,
245
,
255

College of William and Mary,
70

Colombier, Jean,
105

colored medical illustration,
89

Columbus, Christopher,
99

combat gauze,
256

combat helicopter,
27

Combat Lifesaver Program,
256

combat medics,
95
,
258

combat psychiatric cases,
173

combat pulses,
28

combat support hospital (CSH),
260

combat triage,
143

Committees of Safety,
118

communicable disease,
193

compagnies d'ordonnance
,
56

Company of Barbers,
48

compound fractures,
49
,
217

concentration camps,
195

condottieri,
41

Confederacy,
169
; army of,
163
; medical officers,
169
; medical service,
174
,
175

confused states,
214

Congressional Medal of Honor,
173

Coningsby, Sir Thomas,
81

conning tower,
17

conoidal bullet,
12
,
152

conservative treatment of wounds,
206
–7,
216

Constantinople, Turkey,
3
,
41
,
44
,
96

consumption,
100

Continental Congress,
96

contra-rotating propeller,
16

contract physicians,
210

convalescent centers,
228

conventional war,
245
; weapons of,
25

convents,
58

conversion reaction,
178

Cook County Hospital,
230

coolies,
206
,
209

copper plate engraving method,
68
,
89

cordite,
15

corned gunpowder,
5

cornstarch,
230

corrosive sublimate,
198

cotton rags,
166

Council of Lucerne,
55

counterinsurgency warfare,
235

Cours d'opérations de chirurgie
,
89

Courtois, Bernard,
138

cowpox inoculation,
96

Craig, Sir James Henry,
108

cranial surgery,
94

Crecy, battle of,
2

cremation,
209

creosote,
138
,
167

Crimea, Russia,
231

Crimean Medical and Surgical Society,
156

Crimean War,
8
,
12
,
34
,
35
,
131
,
135
,
137
,
148
,
151
,
152
,
158
,
168
,
169
,
173
,
197
,
205
,
210
,
211
,
212
,
217
,
251
; Crimean War,
152
–61; England,
153
–57; France,
157
–60; Russia,
160
–61

Cromwell, Oliver,
83

crown saw,
76

Crown Point, New York,
120

cruise missile,
25

Crusades,
99

crush injuries,
104

Cuba,
137

Cullen, William,
87

Culloden Moor, battle of,
7

Curtis, Glen,
17
,
18

czarist armies,
160

D. A. January
,
170

d'Hautpoul, Alphonse Henri,
157
,
158

da Vigo, Giovanni,
50
,
52

Da Nang lung,
258

Daley Hospital,
210

Danish-Prussian War,
135

Davis, Jefferson,
168
,
175

Davy, Humphry,
133
,
134

de Hautesierck, Richard,
97

de le Boë, Franz,
66

De humani corporis fabrica
,
52

debridement,
53
,
94
,
142
,
166
,
176
,
198
,
219
,
230
,
233

deck catapult,
20

Denmark,
112

dentistry,
175

depth charge,
20

Desault, Pierre-Joseph,
89
,
94
,
142