Medicine and Healthcare in the Great War - the bibliography.

[Bob Davies]

6 hours ago, Marilyne said:

you are absolutely right about "Nursing Sister" being Kate Kuard... reading it now on archives.org and i'm having a blast!! Fantastically written!  

Well found originally and thanks for pointing out who the  "Nursing Sister" is @seaJane I just found it by accident ;-) Very pleased you are enjoying the read Marilyne, I concur, it is rather good.

[aconnolly]

@seaJane - fantastic work!  Couple of additions to consider 

1. The Vincent - Bingley commission into Medical Arrangements in Mesopotamia was published as part of the Mesopotamia Commission report as per your list, but separately in  two vols of appendices were published by the Government Central Branch Press, Simla, India.  These run to some 642 pages in vol 1 and 154 in vol 2.

2. "With the RAMC in Egypt" by "Serjeant Major", 1918 published Cassell and Co. pg 316.  

Andrew

 

[aconnolly]

@seaJane

"Manual of Instruction for the Royal Naval Sick Berth Staff, 1915" by G. O. M. Dickinson, Staff Surgeon, RN, published HMSO pgs 507

Andrew

[seaJane]

Thanks! I'd be quite surprised if I missed the Sick Berth Staff manual but I will double-check, and make sure Dickinson's name is included.

[toofatfortakeoff]

Bravo, great work! 

[TGM]

Hi SeaJane,

I hope it is alright to post this here, but feel free to move:

Good review in the Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022 of a book by Lindsey Fitzharris on Harold Gillies' pioneering work in plastic surgery:

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris.  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022. (978-0374282301)

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"From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such and individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gilles, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gilles, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world's first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero but losing a face made him a monster to society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies's ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror."--Front jacket flap.

 

 

Edited 21 February by TGM

[KizmeRD]

Hello seaJane,

If not already included (perhaps I missed it), there’s also Mabel St.Clair Stobart’s ‘Flaming Sword…’
https://archive.org/details/flamingswordins00stobgoog/page/n32/mode/2up?q=Antwerp

Thank you again for compiling such a useful and informative bibliography..

MB 

[seaJane]

Thanks @TGMand @KizmeRD!

TGM - I am in contact with Lindsay Fitz elsewhere in the social media forest and have been following the progress of her book, which seems to be doing well. But you remind me that I ought actually to read it!

MG - I am going to check around in case Mabel StClair Stobart's book also appeared with a different title. 

I am a bit behind with bibliography updates, not helped by the fact that I went mad with the delete button when tidying files last week, and wiped a vital file that linked to my email system, thus causing about ten years'-worth of archived messages to disappear... 

[KizmeRD]

On 01/03/2023 at 00:48, seaJane said:

MG - I am going to check around in case Mabel StClair Stobart's book also appeared with a different title. 

The book came to my attention when I was researching medical care during the Siege of Antwerp. The other Auxiliary hospital involved there was the 1st British Field Hospital to Belgium. And there’s another book to bring to your attention written by one of the nurses (actually a senior FANY). The book is called A NURSE AT THE WAR - published anonymously, however clearly the author couldn’t have been other than Miss Grace Ashley-Smith (later to become Mrs McDougall).

https://archive.org/details/01120230R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n9/mode/1up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_McDougall

MB

 

Edited 8 March by KizmeRD

[seaJane]

21 minutes ago, KizmeRD said:

another book

Thank you!