Excerpt from A History of United States Army Base Hospital No; 19, American Expeditionary Forces, Vichy, France, A. P. O. 781 In reply to a question as to what the office of the Surgeon General was doing toward preparedness, General Gorgas said that Dr. Harvey Cushing and Dr. George W. Crile had recently returned to the United States from Europe and had urged the Surgeon General to organize base hospital groups for quick mobilization in case the country should become involved in the struggle then in progress. General Gorgas said that his office was getting together the names of groups of physicians and surgeons who were accustomed to cooperative endeavor and who might be expected to work well together under the trying circum stances of war. He was making a provisional list of these groups for further consideration. The Surgeon General asked Dr. Swan if he would like to organize such a group and upon receiving an affirmative answer authorized him to send the names of his associates to Washington, whereupon they would be commissioned in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army. The plan at that time was to have ready lists of officers who would be willing to do the professional work in 500 bed 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.

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Excerpt from A History of United States Army Base Hospital No; 36: Organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 The very name Base Hospital occupies an enviable place in our historical archives, The first Unit of the United States Army to set forth for the Theater of Operations in Europe was a Base Hospital that had been organized under the auspices of the American Red Cross. That Unit eventually proved to be the vanguard of that mighty host Of American manhood that was destined to follow in the trail it had blazed and throw the balance of power on the Western Front to the Side of the Allies, to the consternation and ultimate defeat of the enemy. In its role as a pioneer it was also an efficient demonstration of farsighted preparedness to which the medical profession of America may well point with pride. In this connection we should not lose sight of the fact that this First Unit dispatched by America to the relief of our Allies was one whose sole mission was that of mercy. When the complete story of the great conflict is finally written our Hospital Units will come in for their well - merited Share of praise. Their contribution to the combined cause was not found wanting. Never has the world seen a finer body of men and women than were assembled in those Units. They went forth imbued with the highest ideals of duty, and returned with the indorsement of work well and faithfully done. They arrived in France with little or no previous military training. That they could so quickly adjust themselves to the work at hand, maintain an endless Optimism in the face of distressing conditions, and render such Splendid services with the limited means at their disposal, constitutes one of the brightest pages in the chronicles Of the war. Base Hospital no. 36 was the first Unit of the bed type to be dispatched overseas. It arrived in France and became established at Vittel during the fall of 1917. It was an eye witness to the growth of the American Expeditionary Forces from infancy to full maturity. 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.

Excerpt from The History of Base Hospital Fifty: A Portrayal of the Work Done by This Unit While Serving in the United States and With the American Expeditionary Forces in France To Mrs. Cyrus F. Clapp, of Seattle, who, in memory of her husband, Senator Cyrus F. Clapp, donated an equipped army ambulance for the use of the hos pital in France, and who also forwarded to the director of the hospital, a handsome check to be used for a Christmas dinner for the corps men, who, after partaking of the bounteous meal, tendered her a hearty vote of thanks for her thoughtful ness. 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.