67 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar Introduction: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers 1. J.G. Adami, War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (London: Canadian War Records Office, 1918) 120. 2. Richard A. Gabriel and Karen S. Mietz, A History of Military Medicine, Volume II (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992) 187. 3. “Compulsory Inoculation,” CMAJ 5.3 (March 1915) 220. 4. Macphail, The Medical Services, 250; LAC, RG 9, v.4542, 4/15, 1st Division HQ to all units, 13 October 1916. 5. Leo van Bergen, Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying, and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1919 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), 166. 6. UsingMacphail’s statistics inTheMedical Services, 242: 395,084 disease cases vs. 144,606 battle casualties. He also gives battle deaths as 51,678 vs. 4,960 deaths from disease. 7. Colonel A. Primross, “War Activities in Medicine and Surgery,” CMAJ 9.9 (1919) 2. 8. Colonel George Adami, “Medicine and the War,” CMAJ 10.10 (1920) 882. Tim Cook is Chief Historian at the Canadian War Museum and an award-winning author of 14 books on Canada’s Military History. He has curated permanent, temporary, travelling, and digital exhibitions and is a director of Canada’s History Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a member of the Order of Canada. Tim Cook’s latest book, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War, will be released on 13 September, 2022.
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