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Page 8 - August 18, 1894, making appropriation of $19,000 "for the support and medical treatment of ninetyfive medical and surgical patients who are destitute in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army...
Page 143 - Report of the Surgeon-General of the Army to the Secretary of War, for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1892; Vol.
Page 19 - The duties of medical officers in war and peace. 2. Military surgery, the care of the wounded in time of war, and hospital administration. 3.
Page 92 - Austrian army, who mentions some observations in this line with the nickeled steel-covered projectile, states that " the blood vessels are seldom torn, and that they are not closed so easily by coagulation as those severed by leaden projectiles. The latter are more apt to bruise and lacerate the blood vessels, facilitating thereby the formation of thrombi. On account of the smaller aperture in the skin and soft parts the wounds bleed generally less than those made by the soft leaden bullets. The...
Page 7 - March 3, 1891, making appropriation of $19,000 " for the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army...
Page 18 - School will be established in the city of Washington for the purpose of instructing approved candidates for admission to the Medical Corps of the Army in their duties as medical officers. The course of instruction will be for four months, and will be given annually at the Army Medical Museum, in Washington City, commencing on the 1st day of November.
Page 19 - ... diseases of the eye, 14 of the ear, and 21 for hernia. The absolute number of deaths was 173, of which 56 were caused by violence, 20 by consumption, 17 by pneumonia, 15 by diseases of the nervous system, 13 by typhoid fever, 13 by diseases of the heart, 8 by diseases of the kidney. 6 by iürtuenxa, and 3 by alcoholic poisoning.
Page 76 - ... conditions, as in Kansas, according to Maj. Woodhull, by prohibition; but the aggregates of the Army might be expected to give testimony of some value. These aggregates appear to sustain the views of our medical officers who express themselves as in favor of the system. They show that the canteen has relieved our military posts of one-third of the cases of alcoholism that formerly tended to the demoralization of the individual, infractions of discipline, assaults, injuries, and death. They are...
Page 18 - June 24, 1893, for the purpose of instructing approved candidates for admission to the Medical Corps of the Army in their duties as medical officers.
Page 7 - ... soldiers of the war of the Rebellion we should require to know the number of the wounded or otherwise disabled living at the close of the war and the deaths that occurred among them up to June 30, 1870, when the statistics of the operations of this office under the artificiallimb laws take them up and account for them with precision. It is not possible to obtain these data in the cases of the disabled men, but the facts concerning the amputated cases are better known. "At the close of the war...