Introducing Health Care in Times Past - How our ancestors coped with illness and death Volume 4: Military Medical Care

by Ian H Waller FSG FGRA

INTRODUCING HEALTH CARE IN TIMES PAST -
How our ancestors coped with illness and death
In this series of four illustrated volumes, the life and times of our ancestors and their health care is revealed. It is an immense topic, and after years of meticulous research, a comprehensive chronicle about illness and health care from cradle to grave is the result.
The two underlying themes are how our ancestors dealt with their own health and how the medics coped with each new disease or epidemic that came along. We learn what our ancestors did when they were ill - where did they go for help...who treated them...and how? The fables and folklore behind early medicine are exposed as well as myths and traditions which lived on for decades. The everyday hazards of life in bygone days are explained well as the author paints a vivid picture of the various difficulties faced and overcome by our forebears and medics alike.
We are introduced to doctors and surgeons; pharmacists, apothecaries and quacks; barber-surgeons, dentists and medical specialists; nurses and midwives; pioneers, medical researchers, inventors and by no means least, medical volunteers and charities. We visit their places of work including the temporary ones in time of war.
The four volumes are:
Vol. 1: Medical Practices, Professions and Pioneers
Vol. 2: Diseases, Remedies, Epidemics and Accidents
Vol. 3: Births, Deaths, Funerals and Mental Illness
Vol. 4: Military Medical Care
The four-book set is by popular author Ian Waller so you know you are in for an informative read!

Volume 4 covers all aspects of medical care in the military from the Crusades in the twelfth century, the Battle of Agincourt, the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars through to the extensive care dealing with casualties in both world wars.  The methods of transporting the wounded in the war zones are examined including the various military and volunteer groups that were involved such as naval nursing, volunteer aid detachments, the British Red Cross and many others. There are also extensive details of medicine, heath care and surgery at sea.  This volume ends with the transition to the NHS and details about the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

AVAILABLE AS INDIVIDUAL BOOKS, OR DISCOUNTED AS A COMPLETE SET OF FOUR VOLUMES