The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War.

Abstract

This volume of the history of the medical department in the World War concerns the organization of the office of the chief surgeon of the American Expeditionary Forces, the organization of hundreds of hospitals and hospital centers, and the evacuation of patients to the United States. It is interesting to know that Sir William Osler in January, 1916, recommended that three medical officers of the U. S. Army and three of the navy be detailed to study professional procedures in British base hospitals. No officer of our medical corps, however, was assigned as military observer with the German army previous to our entrance into the war. The medical observers with the British army submitted numerous reports to the surgeon general in Washington which had to do with the activities of the British army medical service. Six American officers serving as observers to the French government were organized into a mission