TY  - GEN
N2  - Edgar Murray Burns chronicles the medical service as the United States entered World War II, beginning with preparations in Portland, moving on to set up facilities across the country, and training and caring for patients in Algeria, Tunisia, and France. This time period proved to be a significant learning experience, not only for the ailments that were being treated, like trench foot, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, gonorrhea, and syphilis, but in navigating the language barriers between the medical staff and their patients. New medicines like penicillin were being used, which was a great advancement, but other issues, particularly of anxiety among the soldiers, made the work more complicated.
DO  - 10.6083/bpxhc42290
DO  - doi
AB  - Edgar Murray Burns chronicles the medical service as the United States entered World War II, beginning with preparations in Portland, moving on to set up facilities across the country, and training and caring for patients in Algeria, Tunisia, and France. This time period proved to be a significant learning experience, not only for the ailments that were being treated, like trench foot, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, gonorrhea, and syphilis, but in navigating the language barriers between the medical staff and their patients. New medicines like penicillin were being used, which was a great advancement, but other issues, particularly of anxiety among the soldiers, made the work more complicated.
T1  - History of the Medical Service
DA  - 1940
DA  - circa 1945
AU  - Burns, Edgar Murray, 1907-
L1  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42290/files/UH473.B967n.1945-1979_Burns_History-46th-General-Hospital.pdf
LA  - eng
PY  - 1940
PY  - circa 1945
ID  - 42290
L4  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42290/files/UH473.B967n.1945-1979_Burns_History-46th-General-Hospital.pdf
KW  - Hospitals, Military
KW  - World War II
KW  - Combat Medics
KW  - Tuberculosis
KW  - Malaria
KW  - Penicillins
KW  - Immersion Foot
KW  - Gonorrhea
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Typhoid Fever
KW  - Syphilis
TI  - History of the Medical Service
Y1  - 1940
L2  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42290/files/UH473.B967n.1945-1979_Burns_History-46th-General-Hospital.pdf
LK  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42290/files/UH473.B967n.1945-1979_Burns_History-46th-General-Hospital.pdf
UR  - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/42290/files/UH473.B967n.1945-1979_Burns_History-46th-General-Hospital.pdf
ER  -