Ian Howie-Willis

Articles by Ian Howie-Willis


The Australian Army’s Two ‘Traditional’ Diseases: Gonorrhea and Syphilis — A Military-Medical History During the Twentieth Century

Ian Howie-Willis Abstract Two sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) marched in lockstep with the Australian Army in most, if not all, its overseas campaigns during the twentieth century. Gonorrhoea and syphilis, bacterial infections spread most commonly through sexual intercourse. This article illustrates through reference to the Australian Army’s major overseas deployments; from the Boer War at… Read more »

By Ian Howie-Willis In   Issue Volume 27 No. 1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/03.2023-19781933/JMVH Vol 27 No 1

Malariology in Australia between the First and Second World Wars (Part 2 of ‘Pioneers of Australian military malariology’)

Abstract Two ‘push’ factors drove Australian malariological research in the decades before World War II. The first was the nation’s own experience of malaria in its tropical north, where local, usually seasonal, outbreaks of the disease occurred fairly regularly. The second was the Army’s experience of malaria during overseas deployments. During the two inter-war decades, the… Read more »

By Ian Howie-Willis In   Issue Volume 24 No. 2 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-97366199/JMVH Vol 24 No 2

The Pioneers of Australian Military Malariology: Some Biographical Profiles (Part 1)

Abstract Australian military malariology has a long but discontinuous history extending back to the Boer War and possibly earlier. Its origins could possibly have been in the Sudan campaign (1885) and more certainly in the second Boer War (1899–1902) in the years before the establishment of the Australian Army. The discipline has continued, increasingly purposefully during the… Read more »

By Ian Howie-Willis In   Issue Volume 24 No.1 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2021-56417661/JMVH Vol 24 No 1