MEDICINE, WARFARE, AND HISTORY
- 3 October 1953
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 153 (5) , 482-488
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1953.02940220026008
Abstract
It is not commonly realized that many of the most significant advances in medical science have been made by medical officers in the armed services or by civilian physicians working under the stimulus of wartime exigency. Whereas the ultimate compensations of war to any society are usually few and seldom recognized, in the field of medicine, over the years, they have been numerous and many of them highly important. A number of examples may be cited from the historical record. In his illuminating series of notes on the history of military medicine, the late Col. Fielding H. Garrison made the observation that, while there were military surgeons in ancient times who occupied positions of responsibility and respect in the armies of Greece and Rome, it was the Swiss Confederation, in the 14th century, that antedated all other nations of modern Europe in state care of the wounded. Municipal ordinances wereKeywords
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