Casualties sort the patients and determine their disposition. Surgeon cases needing certain specialized types of surgery are turned over to the Field Hospital which is set up close by. A great majority of operations here are for perforatingng abdominal wounds d sucking wounds of the chest like this one. Whole blood flown in from england consolidates the gains that have been made by lifesaving plasma at the front. On dday plus four, the first Evacuation Hospital goes up in france. This is the largest and most elaborate type of installation used in thecombat zone. Nevertheless, its ready to receive patients within 30 minutes, and operating starts in two hours, three of them going on at oe. Count them. Skilled army nurses look after the patients, and there are such comforts as cots and mattresses and hot food. Many of the less seriously wounded will make complete recoveries here and report to replacement depots in a matter of days. But cases requiring prolonged periods of convalescences a
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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
What city . Philadelphia. What were your recollections of the Great Depression . Eating a lot of beans, we were on welfare even back then and we would eat dried beans. We did not have rarely did we have any sort of meat. And my father was sick so he could not work. And there were not jobs around at the time until roosevelt started the new deal. Thats one of the big things that sticks in my mind, eating a lot of baked beans. Of course, i had to go out into the woods and cut would to try to keep warm and i purchased my own close from when i was about 10 to 11. My mother made a lot of our close through the depression era. Interviewer what did you do to make extra money . Andrew if a neighbor wanted some help planting a garden, i may be made a dime or . 15 or Something Like that. Little jobs. I also help the gentleman who cut and sold wood. I would help him and get a few pennies there. And i would purchase my clothes, my shoes, because my parents didnt have the money to do it. Interviewer
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