ABSTRACT
In many respects the Crimean War began the steady march towards regulation. It prompted the reform of the Army Medical Department, brought British doctors directly into contact with their French colleagues experienced in the ways of the licensing system and at the war’s end inflated the statistics for venereal disease as soldiers and sailors returned to the United Kingdom. Another post-Crimean reform – the annual reports of the Army and Navy Medical Departments made these statistics readily available, and the investigations of the Army Sanitary Commission spotlighted them while drawing attention to the primitive conditions endured by soldiers. 1
