Between Flesh and Steel (61 page)

typhus,
42
,
59
,
60
,
70
,
71
,
72
,
96
,
120
,
168
,
182
,
219
,
250
,
251
,
252

U.S. Army National Training Center,
269

U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission,
137

U.S. National Research Council,
230

U.S. Naval War College,
202

U.S. Sanitary Commission,
169

UH-1E “Huey,”
236

Ukraine,
246

ultrasound machine,
260

Ulysses,
99

unconventional war,
245
; Post-USSR Operations,
253
–54; Soviet-Afghan War,
245
–53; U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
254
–62

uniform clothing,
91
,
92

Union Army,
12
,
161
,
163
,
168
,
169
,
170
,
172
,
174
,
178
,
179
,
231
; amputations,
165
; causes of death,
164
; medical department,
168
; sanitary commission,
168
; superintendent of women's nurses,
174
; wounds and sickness,
164

United States,
25
,
69
,
70
,
79
,
131
,
139
,
161
,
225
,
245

United Barber-Surgeon Company,
48

University of Virginia,
172

unjacketed bullets,
49

vaccine,
200

vaccination,
102
,
183
,
200
,
204
,
215

Valley Forge,
119
,
120

Vampire,
24

van Gräfe, Karl Ferdinand,
136

van Helmont, Jean-Baptiste,
67

van Leeuwenhoek, Antonj,
66

variable timed fuse,
23

Varna, Bulgaria,
154
,
155

Varro, Marcus Terentius,
137

vascular injuries,
234
,
237

vascular surgery,
234
,
237
,
250

vascular surgeons,
234
,
237

vector control teams,
251

venereal disease,
96
,
173
,
209
,
229
,
237

Venice, Italy,
57
,
99

ventilated ships,
100

ventilators,
260

Veracruz, battle of,
134

vernacular,
45

Verona, Italy,
57

Versailles, France,
21

verwundetennest
,
231

Vesalius, Andreas,
52

Veteran Reserve Corps,
172

veterans hospitals,
80

Vienna, Austria,
70

Vietnam,
165
,
250
,
255
–59,
267
; war,
34
,
215
,
234
,
235
,
237
,
260

Vieussens, Raymond,
68

Vigo's plaster of frog spawn,
75

Villemanzy, Quartermaster general Jacques-Pierre Orillard de,
145

vinegar water,
143

viral hepatitis, acute,
237
,
253
,
254

Virginia, United States,
120

Virginia Assembly,
122

Vitoria, battle of,
149

vodka,
212

volute spring bogie suspension,
23

von Bismarck, Otto,
180

von Blücher, Marshal Gebhard,
142

von Esmarch, Friedrich,
136

von Gersdorff, Hans,
50

von Liebig, Justus,
134

Vulcan cannon,
27

wagons,
81
,
114
,
144
,
149
,
150
,
161
,
174
,
196
,
223
; drivers,
222

Walcheren, Holland,
148

Walker, Mary Edwards,
172

war tremors,
178

War Department,
177
,
178

War of 1812,
122
,
131

War of Independence,
122

War of the Austrian Succession,
109

War of the Spanish Succession,
92

Warren, John Collins,
134

Warrior
, HMS,
16

Warsaw Pact,
252

Washington, Gen. George,
96
,
121

water bed,
199

Waterloo, Belgium,
181
,
178
,
202
; battle of,
142
,
150
–52

weapons salve,
72
,
74

weapons lethality and dispersion,
30
–32

welded armor,
23

Wellesley, Maj. Gen. Arthur, Duke of Wellington,
148
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
211

Wells, Spencer,
136

West Indies,
103

West Virginia,
169

wheel lock,
4
,
5

Whitney, Eli,
14

whooping cough,
42

wick,
5

Willis, Thomas,
67

Wilson's Creek, battle of,
169

Winthrop, John,
70

Wiseman, Richard,
72
,
76

Wittenberg, Germany,
115

woodcut,
68

wooden deckhouses,
101

wooden splinters,
104

Woodward, Joseph, J.,
174

World War I,
8
,
14
,
19
,
153
,
162
,
165
,
194
,
198
,
201
,
213
,
214
,
216
,
220
,
219
,
222
,
225
,
228
,
231
,
251
,
258

World War II,
32
,
51
,
165
,
194
,
218
,
219
,
228
,
231
,
232
,
251
,
255
,
256
,
257
,
266
,
267

wound: infection,
132
,
166
,
217
,
228
,
233
; management,
176
; mortality,
216
; surgeons,
47
,
71
,
70
,
72
,
74
,
82
; treatment (17th century),
73
–77

Wren, Christopher,
67

Wright, Almroth,
200

Wright Flyer,
17

Wright, Orville,
17

Wright, Wilbur,
17

wundärtzne
,
47

X-ray,
136
,
199
,
207
,
216
,
223

Xenakis, Brig. Gen. Stephen,
260

yellow fever,
42
,
137
,
148

Ypres, Third battle of,
217
,
224

zinc oxide,
75

zone of destruction,
26

RICHARD A. GABRIEL
is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He is a former U.S. Army officer and the author of more than forty books, including many with Potomac Books:
Scipio Africanus
,
Thutmose III
,
Philip II of Macedonia
,
Hannibal
, and
Man and Wound in the Ancient World
. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.