Air Service Medical Manual
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.5 inches. 38 pages plus plates. Color Frontis. Illustrations., figures, tables, index, Cover has wear and soiling. Minor tear and pencil erasure to fep. Rear board has some weakness and has been restrengthened with glue. The table of Contents states Part I. Chapter I.--Aviation and its medical problems; II--The selection of the flier; III--The classification of the flier; and IV--The maintenance of the efficiency of the flier. In each of the countries at war there was a fully established Air Medical Service. In the U.S. Army, this work was effectively handled by a division of the Surgeon General's Office, assigned as a part of the Division of Military Aeronautics. Aviation was new, and the Air Medical Service was even newer; so that for educational purposes the director of Military Aeronautics deemed it advisable to issue this manual. The object was to set forth Aviation's debt to Medicine and to make clear the part played by the Air Medical Service in the 'winning of the war in the air." Part I, issued as a separate volume from Part II, was a short statement of the essential facts which were of immediate general interest. Part II went into greater detail and was intended for those who belonged to the Air Medical Service itself or for those who desired to make a more thorough study of this new work. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Military Medicine, Aviation Medicine, Flight Surgeon, Physical Examination, Pilot Selection, Vasomotor, WW1, High Altitude, Aviators, Airplanes, Fitness to Fly, Rebreathing
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