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Naval Medicine

Breeden, James O. "Military and Naval Medicine." In A Guide to the Sources of United States Military History, edited by Robin Higham, 317-343. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1975.

Bibliographic essay. Continued in Supplement I to the Guide published by Archon in 1981 (79-87), and in Supplement II to the Guide published by Archon in 1986 (113-123).

Duvall, Marius. A Navy Surgeon in California, 1846-1847: The Journal of Marius Duvall. John Howell Series on the U.S. Navy in Old California. Edited by Fred B. Duvall. San Francisco: John Howell, 1957. 114 pp.

Gordon, Maurice B. Naval and Maritime Medicine During the American Revolution. Ventnor, N.J.: Ventnor Pubs., 1978. 134 pp.

Hill, Jim Dan. The Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, United States Navy. Biography and commentary by Jim Dan Hill. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1976. 218 pp.

Holcomb, Richmond C. A Century With Norfolk Naval Hospital, 1830-1930: A Story of the Oldest Naval Hospital, the Medical Department of the Navy and the Progress of Medicine Through the Past One Hundred Years. Portsmouth, Va.: Printcraft, 1930. 543 pp.

Langley, Harold D. "Edward Field: A Pioneer Practitioner of the Old Navy." Connecticut Medicine 46 (November 1982): 667-72.

-----. "Medical Men of the Old Navy: A Study in the Development of a Profession, 1797-1833." In New Aspects of Naval History: Selected Papers From the 5th Naval History Symposium, edited by the Department of History, U.S. Naval Academy, 69-80. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co., 1985.

McGuire, Frederick L. Psychology Aweigh: A History of Clinical Psychology in the United States Navy, 1900-1988. Washington: American Psychological Assn., 1990. 249 pp.

McKee, Christopher. "The Pathology of a Profession: Death in the United States Navy Officer Corps, 1797-1815." War and Society 3 (May 1985): 1-25.

Awarded the U.S. Navy History Prize by the Naval Historical Center and the Naval Historical Foundation for the best article on the history of the United States Navy published during 1985.

Pugh, Herbert L. Navy Surgeon. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959. 459 pp.

The memoirs of Rear Admiral Herbert L. Pugh, USN, including his service as a Marine during World War I and his long career as a naval surgeon (1923-1956).

Richman, Allen. "Naval Medicine in an Emerging Crisis, 1845-63." In Naval History: The Seventh Symposium of the U.S. Naval Academy, edited by William B. Cogar, 63-70. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1988.

U.S. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. The History of the Medical Department of the United States Navy in World War II. Washington: GPO, 1950-1953. 3 vols.

Vol. 1, A Narrative and Pictorial Volume; Vol. 2, A Compilation of the Killed, Wounded, and Decorated Personnel of the Medical Department; Vol. 3, The Statistics of Disease and Injuries.

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