Abstract

SUBMARINE medicine as a specialty began to take form within the United States Navy over a quarter of a century ago. Official recognition of specially trained medical officers by a new designation was given, and authority to wear a distinguishing insigne was established during World War II. A division of submarine medicine in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and a plan of training were established a decade ago. Comparison with the simultaneous evolution of occupational medicine in civilian practice clearly demonstrates that submarine medicine is a highly developed area of the broad pattern of occupational medicine. Nowhere else does . . .

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