https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/de86fbfe-4d39-4694-9721-c3923740487d Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film, circa early 1960s, was produced by the Army Pictorial Center. It represents a report about the advancements in military medicine. The film opens with US Army medics tending to wounded soldiers in the field. A brief history of military medicine is described, noting an 80% reduction in death from war wounds and a 90% reduction in death from disease between the Civil War and the Korean War. 01:27 General William C. Gorgas is highlighted for successfully eliminating yellow fever in the Panama Canal area by use of sanitary measures. Major Walter Reed is acknowledged for his discovery of yellow fever’s transmission through mosquito bites. 01:57 Families in Asia wash clothes in a river. Bloated and swollen victims of Schistosomiasis are photographed. Doctors examine patients. 02:45 The on-camera host offers additional military successes in disease eradication such as defeating malaria with the primaquine drug, the US Navy’s vaccines for upper respiratory infection, penicillin prophylaxis for rheumatic fever, and a new treatment of cholera. 03:47 Doctors administer shots with needles and with a jet injection gun. 04:21 Medics in 1960 assist the evacuation and care of injured civilians in Chile after the Valdivia earthquake. They load people and supplies on transport planes, administer medical assistance and inoculations with jet injection guns. 04:38 A staged emergency scene demonstrates artificial respiration and CPR. 05:14 Airfield crash site with destroyed plane on fire. Medics place burn patients into an ambulance; a patient is wheeled through a hospital where treatment is given. 05:53 The on-camera host explains that scientists and researchers of all branches often worked on the same problem. 06:18 Aerial view of Bethesda Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Inside The Naval Tissue Bank and Blood Donor Center, sailors and personnel work with and among cabinets of human skin, bone, and cartilage. 06:49 Surgeons operate on patients, taking grafts. The grafts are placed into freeze dried storage. 07:38 An orderly retrieves a file from the records room. 07:55 Medical officers in the tissue bank laboratory examine samples. 08:06 Time lapse photography of microscope showing the growth of cells from tissue taken from a deceased body. 08:46 Tissue bank scientists at work in the lab, testing and measuring tissue and cell samples. 09:34 A nurse operates a radioisotope on a patient. 09:49 Doctors and nurses operate on a patient. 10:12 Underwater photography showing the ocean floor. 10:28 Crew inside a submarine tend to various wheels and instruments. 10:44 Men in a water tank exercises, researching “decompression from the bends.” 11:06 Sailors on a submarine. 11:23 Two officers read a test tube during a science experiment. 11:44 The on-camera host discusses the US Air Force’s discoveries related to space travel. 12:04 USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. Scientists and doctors conduct a series of studies on the biological, physiological, and psychological effects of leaving Earth’s atmosphere. 13:10 A pilot in a human centrifuge spins round during a High-G test. An occupied ejection test seat is launched.13:37 Airplane at high altitude. Participants inside conduct a weightlessness test. 13:56 Various scientists and pilots conduct maneuverability tests in a mock flight deck on a gimbal, surviving extreme cold tests, and physical endurance tests. 14:51 A rocket sits on a launch pad. Astronauts load onboard the rocket. Countdown and rocket launch. 15:35 High ranking military officers and civilians in suits attend a briefing in a conference room. 15:42 Military students in a classroom listen to an instructor discuss anatomy. 15:52 Two scientists study an EKG-like monitor. In an auditorium, one officer lectures to an audience of other officers. 16:14 Footage from the 1960 Valdivia earthquake in Chile. Citizens walk among collapsed buildings. Crews unload a transport plane, a team of responders assist victims at a field hospital. 16:35 Disaster response teams in the middle of a mock disaster exercise. They remove materials from devastated buildings, administer to wounded, and organize medical help stations. 17:10 The film ends with the on-camera host concluding that military medicine’s mission is to conserve the health and strength of our military defense team, and that development for the common good will continue. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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