Reports of Military Observers Attached to the Armies in Manchuria During the Russo-Japanese War, Part II

The Russo-Japanese war presents prominent features, apparently the result of the normal evolution of modern warfare, which affects the medical department as well as other branches of the service. This book presents a series of reports by United States Army assistant surgeon-generals attached to the Russian Army as observers in the Russo-Japanese War. Special attention is paid to the changes in military medicine and the types of wounds caused by new weaponry in modern warfare. The observers record statistics of casualties and scrutinize the increasing importance played by the relatively new Red Cross societies; they also study how the climate and terrain affected soldier’s health and the ability to hospitalize and evacuate the wounded. There are detailed descriptions of life in Russian Army hospitals, and photographs and written descriptions of ambulances and wheeled litters used to transport the wounded.