Abstract
<h3>MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE WAR</h3><h3>A SERIES OF ARTICLES BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE FOR MEDICAL SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE WAR</h3><h3>UNITED STATES ARMY</h3> Major General James C. Magee Surgeon General, Medical Corps. The inventions and scientific discoveries of the machine age placed at man's disposal powers not alone to build but also to destroy with an insensate fury beyond the imaginings of his forebears. Armed conflict has ceased to be an affair reserved to the professional soldier but instead has become the pitiless total war of the modern day, which affects the life and destiny of every citizen of a belligerent state. The increasing complexities of modern warfare have evolved armies intricately organized and precisely coordinated, which are created, welded and steeled for a single end. The problems confronting an army, including those relating to medical science, differ widely from the problems of a civil population. The evolution of
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