The Medical Department Of The United States Army In The World War Vol 2

Author : Joseph H. Ford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331133585
Total Pages : 1130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Vol. 2 written by Joseph H. Ford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, Vol. 2: Administration American Expeditionary Forces This volume considers only the more important administrative activities of the Medical Department in the American Expeditionary Forces, for the scope of these and their ramifications were such as to preclude, in the space available, a more thorough discussion. On the other hand, since there is a degree of overlapping of this and other volumes, for example, Volumes VI and VIII, certain administrative matters already covered in these other volumes are not taken up in detail herein. Thus the administrative matters which related to the evacuation service of the Medical Department at the front are considered in Volume VIII; the administrative matters closely connected with sanitation will be found in Volume VI. The purely professional services, though covered briefly in this volume, have been assigned greater space in volumes appropriate to each subject. The fact that the service of but one hospital center is discussed at some length, though such formations were among the most important of the Medical Department enterprises, illustrates the necessity for compressing the material available. Certain subjects and activities may seemingly have been unduly slighted. This has been due, on the One hand, to the necessity to avoid unnecessary duplication, or, on the other hand, to the fact that Official reports concerning the subjects in question were too fragmentary. Thus, to the chief surgeon's office, line of communications, the chief surgeon's Office, American forces in France, and the medical activities of some of the sections of the Services of Supply it has been impossible to give the consideration which their importance warrants. Acknowledgment is made to Lieut. Frank Steiner, M. A. C., for arranging the chapters on the brief histories of hospital centers, base, and camp hospitals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.