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<div>PREFACE</div><div>The mission of the Hospital Corps is to give efficient assistance to the Medical, Dental, Medical Service, Nurse and Hospital Corps officers not only in the eternal war against disease, injury, and death, but also in the supportive branches dealing with supply and administration. And, in the absence of officers, to meet emergencies, both medical and supportive, with knowledge and independent judgment. It is toward this end that the hospital corpsman is trained- trained to meet his responsibilities and, what may be equally important, to recognize his limitations especially in the field of medicine.</div><div><br></div><div>There has long been a textbook for training hospital corpsmen. The first, a Handy Book for the Hospital Corps, United States Navy, was published in 1914. Since then, periodically, new texts have appeared as new developments demanded revision. This, the eighth, has been revised to meet the same demands.</div><div><br></div><div>In an effort to prevent this printing of the Handbook from becoming obsolete even as it is published, a new format bas been adopted. This, the loose-leaf, has the decided advantage over the bound volume in that inserts</div><div>can be prepared and distributed to the field as new concepts and methods of management become available through research and experimentation. It is hoped that with this change, the hospital corpsman will always have at hand a reference, text, and guide which will reflect the latest developments in medical care and current policies of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Department of the Navy.</div><div><br></div><div>Nursing and Nursing Procedures, the first chapter to be ready for printing under this new plan, has been extensively revised to incorporate suggestions from the field , new procedures in patient care, and standard forms in current use. Other chapters have been revised and will be published shortly; still others are in the hands of cognizant divisions where work on revision is progressing . Eventually, a never-to-become-outmoded text should be in all Hospital Corps schools, sick bays, and other Medical Department facilities.</div><div><br></div><div><div>L.B. MARSHALL</div><div>Captain, M C, USN (Retired)</div><div>Director of Publications Division</div><div>Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div></div><div><br></div>
<br>Subjects: Hospital Corps; nursing; pharmacology; Bart Hogan; toxicology; poisoning</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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