With the american soldier goes american medicine. Backing him up by his side, with him in his advance. In wartime and in peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded and working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, from east to west. Clinical, Public Health and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered, new procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting front were the Mission Divisions and services of the Su
With the american soldier goes american medicine. Side,g him up, by his with him in his advanced, in wartime and peace, the medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating and constantly working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect, and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed by a network of laboratories stretching from north to south, east to west, Clinical Public Health was required everywhere. Encountered, being new diagnostic procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced problems that were a challenge to the medical department and laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which follows the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting front, were divisions and services of the Surgeon Generals office. Although they were concerned with every aspect of consideration, Outstanding Serv
Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in
Soldier goes american medicine, backing him up, with him in his advanced, in wartime and peace. The medical department carries on, fighting disease, healing and rehabilitating the sick and wounded, and working to search out disease vectors to prevent, detect, and control epidemics. To pursue this mission successfully, the medical department was backed up by a farflung network of laboratories stretching from north to south, east to west. Clinical, Public Health, and Research Laboratories were required everywhere. Diseases new to the army doctor were being encountered. New diagnostic procedures, methods of treatment and control had to be developed and evaluated. Operation and combat under extreme heat and cold produced a challenge to the medical department and its laboratories. Behind this vast medical Laboratory Organization which followed the armies to every distant outpost on our fighting fronts were the many divisions and services of the Surgeon Generals office. Although the Laborato
States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over nearly 150 years. It was initially created as a Marine Hospital service for the care of sick and disabled seamen. It was activated in an active congress signed by the second president john adams in 1798. The service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen, but this was later abolished. The tax was collected by the treasury department. The Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department, where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital in norfolk, virginia, the second built in boston, massachusetts. Some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded forces. It frequently happened that medical officers of the early Marine Hospitals were the first physicians to diagnose diseases such as cholera. The work of the service became of such increasing importance that congress extended its duties until it became in