67 Years Ago — The Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service Vol 1, No. 1

Author’s Note This article, together with a proposed editorial, was written in March before the events in the South Atlantic were even contemplated. That editorial read in part: “Volume 1 No 1, written in the terminology and current knowledge of its time. covers many of the problems we are still dealing with today — survival in hostile environments. combat casualty care, medical selection of aircrew. transport of casualties and epidemic outbreaks and control of infection. The image is of a professional service coping with difficulties of war of a type and scale not seen before. Today’s Navy and its Medical Branch have similar tasks, to prepare and, if all else fails, to cope and survive a conflict of whose nature none of us have had any experience.”