Handbook for the Medical Soldier of the Regular Army, National Guard, Organized Reserves, and Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States and Others Interested in National Medico-Military Preparedness.

Abstract

Soldiering in these days may be called a profession. Most officers are military specialists and much of the work of soldiers is with instruments developed after extensive scientific investigations. One great function of the army in peace time is the training of personnel; so there are schools to teach general staff duty, an infantry school, a cavalry school, a coast artillery school, aviation schools and others. The medical department of the army likewise has schools. There is a medical school, a veterinary and a nurses' school in Washington, and a medical field service school at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where officers do graduate work in branches that especially apply to military medicine. By no means is all the instruction of the medical department carried on at these schools. There are not many medical detachments (and they are scattered throughout the country) that do not have a schedule of instruction for enlisted