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Heat stroke and heat exhaustion

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Brigadier F.M. Lipscombe, RAMC

Report on effects of heat in Persia and Iraq Force (Paiforce). With appendices including plans of Heat Stroke Centre buildings and air-conditioned hospital wards, and Standing Orders, 1944, for disembarkation of personnel and unit m(otor) t(ransport) in Persian Gulf ports, Orders on precautions to be taken to prevent casualties from the effects of heat, and photocopy of Medical Memorandum "Effects of heat in Persia and Iraq"

Copy of a special note, 1942, by the Consultant Physician, Tenth Army, on some clinical aspects of "effects of heat"

Typescript articles, "Anuria due to the effects of heat: unsuccessful treatment of spinal anaesthesia and renal decapsulation" by Major Richard Bayliss and Major Sidney Waller of the British Military Hospital, Delhi, 1947

Correspondence and notes re contributions to the Medical History of the War

Typescript of "Age incidence of adverse effects of climatic heat among British military personnel" (by Lipscombe, 1949). With graphs, tables, notes and correspondence with J. Irwin at the Statistical Research Centre, 1949

Duplicated typescript report on heat stroke and heat exhaustion

Anaemia amongst Indian troops, 1944

Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945

Cysticercosis

Heat stroke and heat exhaustion

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