Wars, pestilence & the surgeon's blade : the evolution of British military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century / Thomas Scotland & Steven Heys.

Wars, pestilence, and the surgeon's blade : the evolution of British military medicine and surgery during the nineteenth century

Solihull : Helion & Company Ltd., 2013.

xvii, 407 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the scene -- Sir James McGrigor, the father of British military medicine -- The Walcheren Campaign -- The Peninsular War -- The Battle of Waterloo -- The British Legion in Spain -- Henry Marshall & the statistics of disease -- Minor wars -- Development of military anaesthesia in the 19th century -- The Crimea -- Medical reforms after the Crimean War -- American Civil War -- The Franco Prussian War (1870-1871) -- The Second Boer War -- The Russo-Japanese War -- Concluding remarks.