Health of the Seventh Cavalry a medical history /
With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post-Civil War United States Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteologi...
| Other Authors: | Willey, Patrick S.,, Scott, Douglas D., |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
xxxi, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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| Summary: |
With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post-Civil War United States Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research suggest that the soldiers of the Seventh represented a cross section of the men who joined the army as a whole at the time. Here the authors examine the Sevenths medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars. Building on previous comparisons of archaeological evidence and medical records, Willey and Scott follow multiple lines of inquiry to assess the health of the Seventh, from its organization in 1866 to its 1884 station on the Northern Great Plains. Pairing general overviews of nineteenth- and twentieth-century health care with essays on malaria, injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other specific ailments, Health of the Seventh Cavalry provides insights into the health, disease, and trauma that the regiment experienced over two decades. More than 100 tables, graphs, and maps track the troops illnesses and diseases by month, season, year, and location, as well as their stress periods, desertions, and deaths. A glossary of medical terms rounds out the volume. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-433) and index. With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post-Civil War United States Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research suggest that the soldiers of the Seventh represented a cross section of the men who joined the army as a whole at the time. Here the authors examine the Sevenths medical records to determine the health of the nineteenth-century U.S. Army, and the prevalence and treatment of the numerous conditions that plagued soldiers during the Indian Wars. Building on previous comparisons of archaeological evidence and medical records, Willey and Scott follow multiple lines of inquiry to assess the health of the Seventh, from its organization in 1866 to its 1884 station on the Northern Great Plains. Pairing general overviews of nineteenth- and twentieth-century health care with essays on malaria, injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other specific ailments, Health of the Seventh Cavalry provides insights into the health, disease, and trauma that the regiment experienced over two decades. More than 100 tables, graphs, and maps track the troops illnesses and diseases by month, season, year, and location, as well as their stress periods, desertions, and deaths. A glossary of medical terms rounds out the volume. Seventh Cavalry regimental history / by Douglas D. Scott -- Overview of nineteenth-century medical care / by Patrick J. Collison -- Nineteenth-century military nosology / by P. Willey and Patrick J. Collison -- Researching the Seventh Cavalry's medical records / by P. Willey -- Regimental strength and background of Seventh Cavalry troopers / by P. Willey -- Head and neck diseases of the Seventh Cavalry / by Patrick J. Collison -- Pulmonary diseases of the Seventh Cavalry / by Patrick J. Collison -- Malaria prevalence in the Seventh Cavalry / by Colleen Cheverko and Kristina Zarenko -- Sexually transmitted infections in the Seventh Cavalry / by P. Willey -- Cold injuries in the Seventh Cavalry / by Katie Cohan -- Other injuries in the Seventh Cavalry / by P. Willey -- Post-traumatic stress disorder and the Seventh Cavalry / by P. Willey, Gary Plank, and Douglas D. Scott -- Seventh Cavalry medical records compared with battle of the Little Bighorn skeletons / by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott -- Frontier post-Civil War military enlisted men's deaths and those in the Seventh Cavalry / by Billy Markland, Douglas D. Scott, and P. Willey -- Health of urban American civilians, children, women, and old men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / by Colleen Milligan -- Summary and discussion / by P. Willey and Douglas D. Scott. |
| Physical Description: |
xxxi, 446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-433) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780806148397 080614839X |