[Responsibilities and tasks of internal military medicine].

Issuing from several historical facts, object and tasks of internal military medicine are explained in a synoptic report. As a result of the revolution in military affairs this still relatively young subject of military medicine developed. In this article the object and special problems of this interdisciplinary field, such as treatment in the base and the medical evacuation are analysed. The explanation of methods and techniques concerning the medical aid in injured persons of internal profile is the main topic of the paper.