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The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-1918: Volume 1 Gallipoli - Palestine - New Guinea

The Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-1918: Volume 1 Gallipoli - Palestine - New Guinea

Butler, A. G.
Downes, F. a.
Cilento, R. W.

Hardcover

General Military HistoryWorld War I

ISBN10: 1783318058
ISBN13: 9781783318056
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jul 17 2023
Pages: 1030
Weight: 3.02
Height: 2.13 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In PART I by A G Butler, the general and detailed plans for the medical arrangements for the Landing, the operations in August, and the Evacuation are described; the working of these plans at Anzac, on the lines of communication, and at the base, are reviewed; and the causes and consequences of the confusion in the clearance of the wounded, which occurred in connection with the Landing and, to a less extent, the August fighting, are traced and exposed. The important part allotted to the inadequately-prepared Black Ships at the Landing is fully dealt with, and the actual influence on mortality of the breakdown in the Medical Service is assessed. The fight with disease, which at Gallipoli proved to be in some respects more serious a menace than the enemy's fire, is followed in detail from its first onslaught on the AIF in Egypt until the debacle on Gallipoli in September and October. The causes of the collapse in health, which is revealed in an arresting series of graphs, are analysed, and the methods of prevention critically examined. During 1914-15 the Medical Services slowly evolved a system of internal order and control, and the vicissitudes through which they passed in the process of obtaining self-government while serving as an integral part of the British forces are impartially narrated. Part I concludes with a review of the activities of the Services in Australia during the first half of the war - the training of personnel for the AAMS, the selection and medical care of recruits for the AIF, and the reception and treatment of invalids returned from overseas. From these tasks there arose problems of great importance and interest - the sanitation of camps preventive inoculation, treatment of disabled and incapacitated soldiers, their reinstatement, and the inauguration of schemes for repatriation and pensioning which were far-reaching and fraught with momentous consequences.

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