Bullets and bacilli : the Spanish-American War and military medicine / Vincent J. Cirillo.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004], ©2004.

xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Revision of thesis (doctoral)--Rutgers University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-226) and index.

Uncle Sam's "splendid little war" -- The Army and the Army Medical Department -- The Army Medical Department at war -- Typhoid fever in the national encampments -- The "round robin," the Dodge Commission, and the embalmed-beef scandal -- Outcomes of the war -- Reprise : typhoid fever in the Anglo-Boer War -- Conclusion.