Medical specialty attending to soldiers, sailors and other service members

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World War I: the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on active service. Oil painting by H.R. Mackey, ca. 1918.

A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

A report on amputations at the hip-joint in military surgery / by George A. Otis.

Russo-Japanese War: soldiers bringing in the wounded to an open air Japanese field hospital. Wash drawing by G. Soper, 1904, after a photograph by J. Ruddiman Johnston.

M0006346: Reconstruction of the Orlop Deck, H.M.S. Victory

Instructions for the medical administration of officers and other ranks 1950 : amendments (No.1) / by command of the Army Council, The War Office.

A manual of venereal diseases / by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps ; introduction by Alfred Keogh ; [prepared by] C.H. Melville [and others].

War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Unter dem Zeichen des Äskulap : eine Einfürung in die Geschichte des Militärwesens von den frühen Anfängen bis zum Ende des Erstem Weltkrieges / von Peter Kolmsee.

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M0006346: Reconstruction of the Orlop Deck, H.M.S. Victory

Instructions for the medical administration of officers and other ranks 1950 : amendments (No.1) / by command of the Army Council, The War Office.

A manual of venereal diseases / by officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps ; introduction by Alfred Keogh ; [prepared by] C.H. Melville [and others].

War's waste : rehabilitation in World War I America / Beth Linker.

Unter dem Zeichen des Äskulap : eine Einfürung in die Geschichte des Militärwesens von den frühen Anfängen bis zum Ende des Erstem Weltkrieges / von Peter Kolmsee.