Afternoon all,
Many thanks to all who helped me with my question regarding Military Neurosurgery during the first world war. I posted the question here and on Medlib and received many extremely useful leads. Several asked me to post the summary, so here it is......
1. Try the Imperial War Museum library. Also the Rockefeller Medical Library at the Institute of Neurology
2. Your reader may find all he needs about American World War I military neurosurgery in the works of Harvey Cushing.
3. Yes, the history of American military medicine is documented thoroughly. Neurosurgery is covered in _The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War_ Vol XI, Surgery, part one, Section III, pages 749-1283. It was published by Government Printing Office, 1927.
4. We've investigated Field Hospitals during WW II (some seemed to be under a similar military structure as the General and Field Hospitals as WW I). I found the following group to be very helpful. I e-mailed them, they forwarded the question and we got a reply that was satisfactory for our question. They're volunteers, but boy they are into it all! http://www.ww2medicine.org/ammi.html American Military Medical Institute Ramune Kubilius Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian Galter Health Sciences Library Northwestern University
5. I expect this one has already come to you but the Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine does have quite a bit on medicine during WW1, but mainly British stuff I expect.
6. Worth trying the Royal Army Medical College Millbank London.
Used to work there a long time ago as librarian. They may be able to help
you or point you in right direction
7. It may be worth trying to contact the Defence Medical Library Service at
Gosport, though I'm afraid I don't have contact details for them. DMLS is
based in a former Naval establishment, but I suspect that offers the best
way of tapping into UK military records. As far as US sources go, there IS
an equivalent of DMLS, but it may also be worth contacting AMSUS through:
http://www.amsus.org
Another thought: Is your reader only looking at army sources? Remember there were substantial numbers of Royal Marines and the Royal Naval Division serving ashore, with Royal Navy surgeons attached to them.
8. A resource you may already be aware of is the history of medicine listserv, CADUCEUS-L, moderated by Rich Behles([log in to unmask]) at the University of Maryland. It is international in scope and fairly low-traffic. Posting address is [log in to unmask] and system commands go [log in to unmask]
9. History of Medicine URLs
American Association of the History of Medicine
http://www.histmed.org/index.html
BUBL LINK / 5:15 Internet Resources: History of medicine
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/h/historyofmedicine.htm
Caduceus-L
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/email/17.htm
Cyndi's List - Medical Medicine Genealogy History archives
http://www.cyndislist.com/medical.htm
ECHO: Exploring & Collecting History Online - Science and Technology
http://chnm.gmu.edu/echo/
History of Biomedicine Karolinska Institutet, Library
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html
History of Medicine Home Page
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html
History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
http://www.mla-hhss.org
History of Western Medicine and Surgery
http://lib-sh.lsumc.edu/fammed/grounds/history.html
Images from the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Institute of the History of Medicine
http://www.welch.jhu.edu/ihm/iohmlibrary.html
International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) home page -
English language version
http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/ishm/eng/
Internet Resources for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
http://141.214.6.15/links/
JHU Catalog: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
http://www.jhu.edu/~admis/catalog/artsci/histsci/hscigcls.html
McGill Health Sciences Library and Osler Library of the History of
Medicine
http://www.health.library.mcgill.ca/
National Museum of Health and Medicine | n m h m
http://www.natmedmuse.afip.org/index.html
Path History of Medicine CE Class
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/lisdec/LEADERS/path.htm
Profiles in Science NLM
http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/
Stanford School of Medicine History
http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/
Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections :MML Information
Gateway
http://library.utmb.edu/blocker/
WWWVL History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Medicine and Health
http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_medicine.htm
10. Try the Center for Military History at Carlisle Barracks, PA.http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/ That site will probably have links. Also the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Collection. (The core of NLM's collection is the library of the Army Surgeon General.)
11.There is a series of books called the "United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919", which probably devotes some space to medicine practised during this war. Some other Army sources of military medical history include: Center of Military History http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/ Military Medical History http://www.cs.amedd.army.mil/history/ele-milmed.html The museum at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) is actually the ancestor of all Army medical training programs; I know they collected (and published) extensively about the American Civil War, and they may have collections from later wars as well: http://130.14.42.05/index1.htmlThe Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences (USUHS) is the DoD's medical school; I believe they have a history of military medicine department that should have materials about past wars: http://www.usuhs.mil
12. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons has published a book called "A history of neurosurgery in its scientific and professional contexts" edited by Samuel Greenblatt. This has a section on World War 1 in it. Index Medicus also published a war supplement covering the period 1914 to 1917, and this has a section entitled "Wounds of the Nervous System".
You might also want to let your reader know that we have many of the papers of Sir William Macewen, one of the founders of neurosurgery, and there might be some information in them about neurosurgery in this period, as well as the papers of Macewen's successor as Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University, Archibald Young, who did some neurosurgery, and was active in WW1, although he would not have described himself as a neurosurgeon.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
13. The MOD in London several health libraries including the main admin headquarters at the RAMC college Millbank London. The RAMC do have quite a lot of archive material including the military medical journals of the day.
14. The Royal Society of Medicine ..... they have medical books
on that subject in their collection, including tracts by Harvey Cushing, who
wrote about Neurosurgery in the 1st world war .... contact their search
services team for a search or document delivery for photocopies of articles
One book on our shelves is:
The making of a neurologist: the letters of Foster Kennedy M.D.,
F.R.S.Edin. 1884-1952 to his wife from Queen Square, London 1906-1910; New York City 1910-1912, British Expeditionary Force 1915-1918; edited with a memoir by Isabel Kennedy Butterfield. 1981
Thanks again!
Humphrey
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