"Some system of the nature here proposed" : Joseph Lovell's Remarks on the sick report, Northern Department, U.S. Army, 1817 and the rise of the modern US Army Medical Department / Stephen C. Craig.

Portion of title Joseph Lovell's Remarks on the sick report, Northern Department, U.S. Army, 1817 and the rise of the modern US Army Medical Department
Contents A second War for Independence -- America, 1815-1818 -- Joseph Lovell and Remarks on the Sick report -- The first US Army Medical Department -- Epilogue.
Scope and content "A regimental surgeon promoted to hospital director in the War of 1812, Joseph Lovell, MD, became the first Army staff-level surgeon general. This volume is an in-depth analysis of how Lovell's report on Army medicine just after the war gave rise to innovations, from focus on the soldier's welfare and preventive medicine to accurate epidemiology and experimental research, that formed the organizational and functional principles of today's professional and effective Medical Department"--Provided by publisher.
General noteShipping list no.: 2015-0324-P.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015012118
ISBN9780160928734
ISBN0160928737
GPO item number0351-A
Govt. docs number D 104.2:N 21

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