The Army Medical Department, 1865-1917, is the third of four planned volumes that treat the time of revolutionary change in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine. Mary C. Gillett traces major developments for the Medical Department-from its rebirth as a small scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, to the entrance of the United States into World War I.

A history of U.S. Army medical activities from the Revolutionary War to 1818, the year in which congressional legislation instituted the modern Medical Department.

A history of U.S. Army medical activities from the Revolutionary War to 1818, the year in which congressional legislation instituted the modern Medical Department.

Medical activities in the U.S. Army from the inception of the modern Army Medical Department through the Civil War, with emphasis both on medical service in the far West and on clinical, scientific, and organizational advances.