Preventive Medicine in World War II. Volume 9, Special Fields

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Anderson ◽  
Ebbe C. Hoff ◽  
Phebe M. Hoff
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
World War

Preventive Medicine in World War II. Volume 2. Environmental Hygiene

1955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jr. Coates ◽  
Hoff John B. ◽  
Hoff Ebbe C. ◽  
Bill Phebe M. ◽  
Johnson Audrey A. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
World War ◽  
Environmental Hygiene

Preventive Medicine in World War II. Vol. IV: Communicable Diseases

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-312
Author(s):  
SAUL KRUGMAN
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Alimentary Tract ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Department ◽  
Modes Of Transmission ◽  
Transmission Part ◽  
History Of

This book is the 4th volume of a series of the official history of the Medical Department, U.S. Army in World War II. It is the first of 3 volumes which will deal with the problems of communicable disease in military practice. This excellent book is written from the viewpoint of preventive medicine by 21 highly qualified authorities in the field of infectious diseases. It is divided into three sections: Part I—an introduction dealing with general considerations of modes of transmission; Part II—discussion of diseases transmitted chiefly through the respiratory tract; and Part III— diseases transmitted chiefly through the alimentary tract. It is an attractive, cleanly printed text, amply and cleanly illustrated with 91 tables and 48 charts.

Importance of pesticides in preventive medicine

1967 ◽  
Vol 167 (1007) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Insect Vector ◽  
World War ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Other Substances ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Benzene Hexachloride ◽  
First Time

Twenty years have elapsed since the introduction on a wide scale of the residual insecticides in preventive medicine, and it is perhaps useful at this moment to pause, to see what has been accomplished, and try to foresee what lies ahead. The history of the two best known synthetics, DDT and gammexane runs almost parallel: DDT was discovered as a student’s exercise by Zeidler in Germany in 1874, its insecticidal properties by Muller in Switzerland in 1936 and its applicability to medical problems by Buxton and others during World War II; benzene hexachloride was synthesized by Faraday in 1824, but it was not introduced as an insecticide until 1941— These and other substances became extensively used after the war, and for the first time it became possible to eradicate, often fairly easily, an insect vector of disease, instead of merely to reduce its numbers

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