A Critical Analysis of the Syndrome of Acute Total Body Radiation Illness, Its Role in Atomic Warfare and Its Influence on the Future Practice of Military Medicine; Project NM 007 039, Report No. 19

[4], 22, [2] pages. Footnotes. References. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the various lethal factors related to atomic warfare in general with particular emphasis on the effects of total body ionizing radiation which are unique to an atomic bomb explosion. Includes footnotes, summary and conclusions, references. Two pencil check marks on page 21. Some soiling to text Name stamped on front cover. Eugene P. Cronkite, MD, joined the Navy and served as a medical corps lieutenant in World War II and as a director of the Naval Medical Research Institute in Maryland. He later left the Navy and began to study the effects of nuclear fallout. Among his subsequent achievements, Dr. Cronkite identified links between radiation exposure and cancer, developed a new treatment for leukemia, and founded the International Society for Experimental Hematology. In 1971 he was elected president of ASH. This document was named The Sir Henry Wellcome Prize Essay for 1948, and was published in The Military Surgeon of January 1949. The Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) conducts health and medical research, development, testing, evaluation and surveillance to enhance the operational readiness and performance of DoD personnel worldwide. NMRC is the Navy's largest biomedical research facility and serves as the Echelon-4 headquarters command to nine subordinate Navy medical research and development (NMR&D) laboratories throughout the U.S. and overseas. The NMRC research covers infectious diseases, biological warfare defense, directed energy bioeffects, combat casualty care, dental, environmental health, bone marrow transplantation, aerospace and undersea medicine, medical modeling, simulation and mission support, warfighter performance, epidemiology and behavioral science.…