Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918 - Volume Vol3

Volume III – Special Problems and Services (1st edition, 1943)

Author: A G Butler

With this volume Colonel Butler completes the task assigned him in writing the History of Medical Services of the Australian Army in the War of 1914–18.

SECTION I discusses the technical problems of chemical warfare, moral and mental disorders, venereal disease, the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 and the surgery of repair and rehabilitation. SECTION II is devoted to the medical services of the naval and the newly created air services.SECTION III describes dental service, nursing and physical therapy.SECTION IV continues the story of the invalid soldier, his return home, the medical problems of sea transporation, the reexamination and the technical problem of pensioning.SECTION V furnishes statistics on the total casualties sustained by all the belligerents. A special feature of this section is a detailed clinical analysis of the figures of mortality and morbidity comprising the life history of the Australian Imperial Force.

• Preface, Contents, List of illustrations, and Abbreviations (490.69Kb PDF file)
  Pages i to xx
• Introduction (142.89Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1 to 4

• SECTION I – Some Technical Problems

  • Chapter I – Chemical Warfare (2.72Mb PDF file)
    Pages 5 to 55
  • Chapter II – Moral and Mental Disorders (4.71Mb PDF file)
    Pages 56 to 147
  • Chapter III – The Venereal Diseases in the War of 1914–18 (2.13Mb PDF file)
    Pages 148 to 189
  • Chapter IV – The Influenza Pandemic, 1918–19 (1.56Mb PDF file)
    Pages 190 to 219
  • Chapter V – The Scientific Background of Army Medicine in the War (3.46Mb PDF file)
    Pages 220 to 285
  • Chapter VI – Some Surgical Problems of Repair and Re–enablement (4.07Mb PDF file)
    Pages 286 to 350

• SECTION II – The Naval and Air Services

  • Chapter VII – Medical Service with the Royal Australian Navy (2.88Mb PDF file)
    Pages 351 to 404
  • Chapter VIII – Medical Service with the Air Force (961.92Kb PDF file)
    Pages 405 to 424

• SECTION III – The Technical Specialties

  • Introduction (388.42Kb PDF file)
    Pages 425 to 432
  • Chapter IX – The Australian Army Dental Service (2.56Mb PDF file)
    Pages 433 to 484
  • Chapter X – The Australian Army Pharmaceutical Service: Medical Equipment and Stores (2.22Mb PDF file)
    Pages 485 to 526
  • Chapter XI – The Australian Army Nursing Service (3.33Mb PDF file)
    Pages 527 to 589
  • Chapter XII – The Australian Army Massage Service (1.78Mb PDF file)
    Pages 590 to 625

• SECTION IV – The Aftermath of War

  • Chapter XIII – The Australian Invaild in England (1.99Mb PDF file)
    Pages 626 to 664
  • Chapter XIV – Sea Transport of Australian Soldiers (2.95Mb PDF file)
    Pages 665 to 722
  • Chapter XV – Medical Problems in Australia (3.05Mb PDF file)
    Pages 723 to 786
  • Chapter XVI – The War–Damaged Soldier (3.06Mb PDF file)
    Pages 787 to 845

• SECTION V

  • Chapter XVII – Statistics of the War (5.46Mb PDF file)
    Pages 846 to 980
  • Chapter XVIII – Quo Vadimus? (1.19Mb PDF file)
    Pages 981 to 1001
• Appendix 1 – Past History of Chemical Warfare: The Hague Conventions (202.56Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1002 to 1005
• Appendix 2 – Report by the Registrar, No. 2 AAH, Southall, to the DMS AIF, on prosthesis in the Upper Limb (74.74Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1006 to 1007
• Appendix 3 – An Australian’s Experience in the RAMC (215.29Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1008 to 1011
• Appendix 4 – Observations by Colonel H C Maudsley, September 1919 on members of the AIF boarded by him in England during the years 1916–19 (291.82Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1012 to 1016
• Appendix 5 – The French system of invaliding in wartime (29.85Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1017 to 1017
• Appendix 6 – The scale of rations to Birtish and Dominion Troops in France (60.21Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1018 to 1019
• Appendix 7 – Officers, NCO's and Men of the Australian Army Medical Services who lost their lives in the First World War (969.76Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1020 to 1043
• Appendix 8 – Honours awarded to members of the Australian Army Medical Services (201.41Kb PDF file)
  Pages 1044 to 1048
• Index (3.63Mb PDF file)
  Pages 1049 to 1103