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Memoir of Sir Andrew Smith, Director General of the Medical Department of the British Army

Michie, Alexander.

Date: [1877]

Bones of a hand. Radiograph, 1900/1904.

Date: 1900

A manual of venereal diseases

Melville, C. H. 1863-

Date: 1907

Taku, China: the North Fort bearing raised British and French flags; Chinese corpses in the foreground; on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Beato, Felice, approximately 1825-

Date: 1860/08/21

Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the sanitary state of the army in India : with précis of evidence

Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India.

Date: 1863

Boer War: an army officer examines the scarred backs of whipped African deserters. Halftone after J. Finnemore after E. Prater.

Prater, Ernest, active 1900.

Defensive measures against gas attacks

MacReady, C. F. N.

Date: 1916

Wounded foreigners outside the city walls being picked up by French soldiers and taken to a guarded fortress. Coloured lithograph by G. Engelmann after H. Lecomte, 1820.

Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857.

Date: 1820

Three illustrations of Roman military punishment: banishment, degrading punishment, and freemen degraded and sold into slavery. Etchings by A.M.I. after W. Hogarth.

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.

First aid case, Germany, 1914-1918

Science Museum, London

Manual for the volunteer medical service : to which are added chapters on the Army Medical Reserve and the Yeomanry Cavalry

Sleman, Reginald.

Date: 1892

Documents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

United States Sanitary Commission.

Date: 1866-1871

Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate

Hunter, John, -1809.

Date: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]

Dr Beaston's medical officer uniform, United Kingdom, 1898-1

Science Museum, London

On the growth of the recruit and young soldier : with a view to a judicious selection of "growing lads" for the army, and a regulated system of training for recruits

Aitken, William, 1825-1892.

Date: 1887

Two soldiers carrying a wounded comrade off the battlefield. Coloured lithograph after J.H. Marlet, 1817.

Marlet, Jean-Henri, 1770-1847.

Date: [1817]

Private's billet : Blairgowrie, 18... Mr... for the period of ... night ... billet master : if lodging is not provided, give three-pence per night to each man, and return the billet.

Date: Before 1900]

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

Science Museum, London

A letter to the officers of the Army under orders for, or that may hereafter be sent, to the West Indies, on the means of preserving health, and preventing that fatal disease the Yellow Fever

Henderson, Stewart, active 1799.

Date: 1795

Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies.

United States Sanitary Commission.

Date: 1861

A catalogue of the collection of Mammalia and Birds in the Museum of the Army Medical Department, at Fort Pitt, Chatham.

Great Britain. Army Medical Services. Museum.

Date: 1838

Army sanitary administration and its reform under the late Lord Herbert

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.

Date: [1862?]

Judith puts the head of Holofernes into her maid's bag. Etching.

The sword of Judith : Judith studies across the disciplines

Brine, Kevin R.

Date: 2010

An episode in the revolutionary war in China, 1911: the revolutionary army, on a hill (left), ambushes part of the imperial army (right) as the latter approaches a city flying the republican flag. Chromolithograph by T. Miyano.

Date: [between 1900 and 1999]

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