Official History of the Canadian Medical Services 1939-1945, Vol 2


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The Director of the Army Historical Section, under whose guidance the project was placed at the request of the medical historian, has been of the greatest possible assistance. [...] The excellence of the illustrations is due to the foresight of those who appointed war artists and war photographers; their quality is due to the skill of the many who produced them. [...] The glands of the neck at the angles of the jaw were usually palpable, enlarged, and tender. [...] If the subsequent course of the disease and the negative throat cultures failed to support a clinical diagnosis of diphtheria, the diagnosis was changed to acute tonsillitis, or Vincent's angina, whichever proved to be the case, and the patient treated and disposed of as such. [...] While differences of opinion were held with regard to the value of repeated lumbar puncture in treatment, there was a general tendency to reduce the number of spinal taps, and in some hospitals lumbar puncture was done only for diagnosis, for recheck prior to the patient's discharge, or when some variation in the usual course of the infection was the cause of apprehension to the attending physicia.




Official History Of The Canadian Medical Services, 1939-1945


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This comprehensive history of the Canadian Medical Services during the Second World War provides both a detailed account of their actions and a broader analysis of the role of military medicine during wartime. It covers the major campaigns and battles in which the Medical Services were involved, as well as the organizational and logistical challenges they faced. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in military history or the history of medicine. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.