Background
Gillett, Mary Caperton was born on April 28, 1929 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Lewis Hopkins and Mary Caperton (Horsley) Renshaw.
( This volume traces the development of the department fr...)
This volume traces the development of the department from its establishment on a permanent basis in 1818 through the final days of the Civil War in 1865. The uninterrupted existence of the Medical Department after 1818 made possible the gradual transformation of its staff from a collection of physicians of varying skills and attitudes into a group of highly trained and disciplined medical officers, proud of their organization and of their roles in it. Photographs are interspersed through this text and an extensive bibliography is included.
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Mary Gillet authors a long-needed in-depth analysis of the department's struggle to maintain the health and fighting ability of the nation's soldiers during both World War I-a conflict of unexpected proportions and violence-and the years that preceded World War II. In 1917, unprepared as a result of the widespread conviction that to prepare for war is to encourage its outbreak, the Medical Department faced confusion exacerbated by a shortage of both equipment and trained personnel. While bringing to bear knowledge of disease and disease prevention gained in the years after the Spanish-American War, it redesigned and developed its approach to evacuation; struggled to limit the damage to health and effectiveness caused by poison gas, an unfamiliar and deadly weapon; worked to devise ways to limit the suffering and deaths from gas gangrene; began its research into the unique problems of aviators; and desperately tried but failed to control the 1918 influenza pandemic, leaving behind a mystery concerning this disease that is yet to be completely solved. As Gillett's volume reveals, budget cutting and the popular conviction that there would never be another war as horrible as World War I initially retarded all efforts by department leaders to organize for a major conflict during the interwar period. With the nation eased into accepting the likelihood of war by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Medical Department for the first time in its history was able to prepare, albeit to a limited degree, for war before the first gun was fired. In today's arena, The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941, has a far-reaching application for all officers responsible for the health of their soldiers.
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Gillett, Mary Caperton was born on April 28, 1929 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Daughter of Lewis Hopkins and Mary Caperton (Horsley) Renshaw.
Student, Wellesley College, 1949. Bachelor, American University, 1966. Master of Arts, American University, 1971.
Doctor of Philosophy, American University, 1978.
Historian, United States Navy Department, Washington, 1966-1969; historian, unites states department Army, Washington, 1972-1996.
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(Mary Gillet authors a long-needed in-depth analysis of th...)
( This volume traces the development of the department fr...)
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(This history of the U. S. Army Medical Department deals w...)
Member American Association for History of Medicine, National Wildlife Federation, We. History Association, The Nature Conservancy, The Wilderness Society, The Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, Audubon Naturalist Society.
Married Richard Clark Gillett, June 7, 1949 (deceased). Children: Richard Clark Junior, Glenn Douglas, Mary Caperton, Priscilla Elizabeth, Blakeney Diana.