author

Clyde S. (Clyde Sinclair) Ford

b. 1867

Best known for firsthand medical writings shaped by war, this early 20th-century army doctor brought a clinical eye to the Balkan conflicts. His surviving books focus on battlefield care and X-ray evidence from the Turko-Balkan War.

1 Audiobook

Gunshot Roentgenograms A Collection of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople During the Turko-Balkan War, 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish Army

Gunshot Roentgenograms A Collection of Roentgenograms Taken in Constantinople During the Turko-Balkan War, 1912-1913, Illustrating Some Gunshot Wounds in the Turkish Army

by Clyde S. (Clyde Sinclair) Ford

About the author

Born in 1867, Clyde S. Ford is listed in major library records as Clyde S. (Clyde Sinclair) Ford. The works most readily linked to him today present him not as a novelist, but as a physician and medical author whose publications were tied to military service.

His best-known books include The Balkan Wars, The Care of the Wounded in the Balkan Wars, and Gunshot Roentgenograms. Library and public-domain sources describe these works as studies of wartime medicine, especially the treatment of wounded soldiers and the use of X-ray images during the Turko-Balkan War of 1912–1913.

Because the available sources in this search are mostly catalog and archive records, many personal details remain thin. What does come through clearly is his role as an observant medical writer whose books preserve a close, on-the-ground view of military medicine in a period of rapid change.