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Show 25,000 MEDICAL RESERVE OFFICERS BEING SOUGHT NEW YORK, March 27. Twenty-five thousand medical reserve officers is the goal of a recruiting campaign begun today to-day by the auxiliary medical committee for national defense. The medical corps now numbers about 3000, 'of whom 2000 have come in within the last eighteen months. A committee of ten physicians will be appointed to study the plans followed In England and France, under which the practice of doctors who enter military or naval service is taken over in their absence by physicians who remain in civil life and returned intact when the army and navy surgeons are rriustered out of service. |