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Show N "N o Need Ever Again to Go to Germany for Medical Science" CoDrrlEht. 193. -j;- Public Ledcer Co. I , ! - .... i , , ..- . 1 ' " ' cfl ' $ h MM uhV?e.v f Jdl If i WANTED W I vi hw hrH states . ?'vA5H-J t$ VP- r,pgMJ-1 fcff. ' liu ,-ut 1 "tit M fe : H By Jane is , ''XKJ CARRY on as long as the germs carry on." That's the battle cry of the army medical school in Washington which, since the second draft, virtually had its finger on the pulse of the nation's eighteen to forty-five year manpower. man-power. The manufacture of our army's and navy's health is the most essential war industry. It is too vast an enterprise for the war Industries board hence, the army medical school has taken the new business over and is becoming Jhe largest health factory of the country. coun-try. A mere stripling of twenty-five years, undersized, the school by manufacturing manu-facturing typhoid vaccine has indirectly indi-rectly vaccinated the entire armyand navy since we entered the war. Since April 6, 1917, it has examined physically physi-cally and given the Wasserman reaction re-action to 100,000 men. AH the medical officers of the regular army who teach and examine our boys at the camps are trained here. This is the "West Point" of the army medical department. depart-ment. Hundreds of laboratory and field technicians, who will be lnvalua- r ble after the war, are sent out as experts ex-perts every three months. These technicians, tech-nicians, under the vaccine master, Col-ongl Col-ongl Eugene R. Whit more, are daily growing germs to fight the germ enemies ene-mies of the army and navy. All-Star Cast '"""""' As the beloved commandant of the "echool. Brigadier General William H. Arthur, puts it: "We work as long as the germs work twenty-four hours a day. Three shifts, of course. Right now all Interest 1b centered In Colonel Whltmore's pneumonia and spinal meningitis vaccine, which are making a lasting nfime for him." The personnel of the school reads like an all-star cast, though Major Robert D. Maddox. officer in charge of the orthopedic section, maintains that ""there are no stars here; personalities have vanished Into units, all working together to give our boys 100 per cent health." At the heed, admired by every one, from the adjutant to the enlisted man doing fatigues ia Brigadier General William IT.; Arthur, n shy, most un-bluatering un-bluatering general. Painfully embarrassed embar-rassed when forced to talk of himself. the commandant, always soft-voiced, becomes eloquent about his school and the men heading tho departments. r 'TTave you talkr.l with Colon! Whltmore and our adjutant. Colonel Ecott?" is the wax brlga-'er general gen-eral begins to talk about himself. When hard pressed General Arthur admits that he lectures on war surgery. sur-gery. "Oh, yes. T've been an army Burgeon for thirty-eight years." he Emlles. V-y strenuous . Interviewing' General Arthur is induced' to mention that he had been in MpMco with Pershing, Per-shing, cruised around the world in a hospital ship, served in the Boxer re-Jr re-Jr bellion and in the Philippines and as- -fisted General Gorgas In the great 'fight to conquer yellow fever. . "No. I've never studied abroad. Tou can learn everything you want to about medicine in thin country. That 'German university finish is Just a fad." General Arthur expects to go across shortly, "to do whatever General Perishing Per-ishing wantK me to do he will find the right niche for me," smiled this gentle and splendid veteran. ' In the Vaccine Laboratories Colonel G. H. Scott, the big, breezy Idol of Port Benjamin , Harrison, where he was mdicnj instructor until the camp broke up. Ilnds it necessary for army doctors to be business as well as professional men. "How else will we have the right kind of hospitals for our boys over there? For it Js quite different man- , aging a hospital here where we can get any equipment at once, to the set-Ving set-Ving up of an entire establishment in a country 3000 miles away from supplies. sup-plies. Military medical administration is going to be one of the big departments depart-ments in our medical schools, which, will now always have courses in mlli- i: 1 tary medicine and surgery. S)r "But you must not leave without a look at our vaccine laboratory," ad- f vises 'Adjutant Scott, and up you l climb wherv it Finella like real war, to linn Colom:l Whitmore. covered Uh a Inn v white robu . stirring huge kttlc ol bouillon, explai why - typhoid culturfes grow up to b sturdier, more efficient germs in lean -beef soup than In any other media. Coionel Whltmore combined the plain garden typhoid germ with Its highbrow high-brow cousins A and B paratyphoid, suspending them in oil so that now the former three typhoid inoculations, stretching over a period of three weeks, can safely- be given in one "shot," lasting five seconds. The' scholarly colonel brushes aside his share in this process and says, "Oh, yes, the department did that." Never does he slip into "I am developing de-veloping the pneumonia vaccine." It is always, "The department is working work-ing on the pneumonia and spinal meningitis vaccine, which it is sending abroad, rush oi'der, together with cholera serum." Every man in the school is talking about Colonel Whitmore's jump to fame through his vaccine arid his un-human un-human modesty thereof. They tell you further that when they assured Colonel Whitmore that the laboratory's labora-tory's daily output of twenty liters of vaccine was the maximum, he insisted in-sisted that this was tiher minimum and helped his technicians build the machinery ma-chinery and install laboratories, increasing in-creasing the daily output to 2300 liters, representing an outlay of half a million dollars annually. "Army vaccine is 100 per cent perfect,", per-fect,", says Colonel Whitmore, "because "be-cause commercial firms have so far neither the time nor patience for the rigid tsts necessary, and as a result their vaccine i3 usually negative or too violent." Army vaccine Is said to take on a telegraph p61e. But vaccine Isn't the joy of his heart. "His bread-and-butter job," he calls It His labor of love is the extermination of the malarial germ. As he drifts into the experimental room there's a glow in his eye that no typhoid germ can arouse. Apologizing for his devotion to malarial parasites, he says, "But get a man talking about his hobby and you are lost." It was a natural transition transi-tion from animal parasites to man's, and Colonel Whitmore established himself as a scientist who denies that woman is man's natural parasite. Human Bacfcriologists "She is his partner," says the vaccine vac-cine expert, which proves that a bacteriologist bac-teriologist can be- perfectly human. In scholarly language the colonel suggests sug-gests all he doesn't know about malarial ma-larial parasites, proving that whatever what-ever dark secrets the germs are hiding, hid-ing, the colonel has them all filed away and will shortly make out a perfect case against them. "We discovered," he said, "that man and his jialarlal parasites compart ffliily well; that is. persons may have triii laria and not be Pick.- In a few centuries man and malaria will be so congenial that they won't g?t on each other's nerves. But why wait and be uncomfortable all that time?" There's another delightfully human bacteriologist ht tine school who knows more abuut the army and Indirectly civilian social heaith - than any man in the country. Colonel Edward S. Veddcr has published several exhaust-he exhaust-he ideas about teaching social hygiene hy-giene to parents. "But." ho smiics boyishly, "my department de-partment rivals with Wasserman reactions re-actions not parlor talk at all; at least so the magazines and newspapers think, for thoy are determined to die unconscious of the existence of vene real diseases. Personally, I believe In calling a spade a spade. Our examinations examina-tions here prove that 20 per cent of the young male population from which our army is drawn and 5 per cent of our college men are afflicted with diseases dis-eases whose names the newspapers won't print. These diseases cause one-fourth one-fourth of the blindness of the world. "This second draft has given us moi ? than a blrdseye view of the health status of our country. When the public realizes that the greatest percentage of untltneps Is the result re-sult of unmentionable diseases, it will demand (as I do) that the heaith department de-partment of every city mall circular of information to all parents in the community, with personal interviews w hen necessary. These diseases are uncontrollable at present and fatal and the greatest menace to the public hc.dih much more dangerous than tho '?ianih influenza' or any other epi'ieniie that is quickly recognized. i 1 A V - i - ti 1 1 ; ? A Lmtw' ' - vv kv Jr:. & '&fM ' v v i V K v s' ' r"2 r 4 I K V' , V V f , . 1 s , t x U I' V'WV , . . - I It . r - II I , r - A U 't . ' r , t- , ' v. ' ' f' ' ' H V( . . - .7 , - , ( , . ' uf s ? A7 Social diseases are often musically vlj -V'Jljo SX . er, ui 7. U. Cooiidge, oi tne oenera-i termed 'Apoplexy, arterio-sclerdsis. Jj J jj (II Electric Company, symbolic of our heart disease,, etc. 3 j -A spirit in the war. "Tho army treats all cases, and for ;,"p "' a "The Cooiidge tube has made our Social diseases are often musically termed 'Apoplexy, arterio-sclerdsis. heart disease,, etc. "Tho army treats all cases, and for 'the most part is successful in cures. Hospitals won't admit patients with recognized social diseases because of the stigma attached, but the sooner we look the truth in the face the sooner will we have a healthy race." ' Slight, young looking, Major Howard E. Ashbury Is at the head of the busy X-ray department, a nucleus of X-ray-experiments in America. The boyish major, who admits that he is a much-married much-married man and older than need be discussed for publication, was a surgeon sur-geon at Johns Hopkins and director of private X-ray hospitals in Baltimore. Like most of the medical men in the school, he was commissioned in 1010 when the army was far-sighted enough to create a medical reserve corps. Training enlisted men tu handle X-ray X-ray machines here and abroad is the special task of Major Ashbury and bis-distinguished bis-distinguished looking colleague. Captain Cap-tain Leroy S. Townsend. When it is m iiip P , BRIG. GEN. WM. H. ARTHUR Head of the United Stales army medical school understood that every wounded man at the front must be swiftly and accurately ac-curately examined at an X-ray laboratory labora-tory before being moved to a hospital, the enormous responsibility of the boyish-looking major will be dimly felt. He tells enthusiastically of . the roentgenologists roent-genologists (X-ray experts), who write to him, "Say Ashbury. that technician you sent me is ;i wonder 1 don't know what I'd do without him." The adjustable table top from which the wounded men are moved only twice during the entire journey from litter to ambulance, and Utter again, to the operating table and bed, was developed under Major Ashbury as one of liia "bits." He finds' the Cooiidge X-ray tube, the product of the brilliant research work- . er, lv. W. L). Cooiidge, oi me oenoiii Electric Company, symbolic of our spirit in the war. "The Cooiidge tube has made our portable- X-ray. which was developed in this department, a cheaper and simpler apparatus than the French and English machines, and it spells speed. Speed is the keynote of our part in the war. We are in it to speed up the encl, and American science sci-ence and labor will discount Germany's forty years' preparation." The most quickening ei't'ect of the war is noticed in the orthopedic department, de-partment, taken over in November, 1917, by Major Kc'oert D- Maddox, for-, merly connected with the United States Public Health Service and clinical clini-cal instructor of orthopedics at the University of Cincinnati. "A genius," say his assistants, Lieutenants Lieu-tenants Louis I. Skirball and Charles E. Llewellyn, as well as the technicians techni-cians under him in the worksbo;;. "A grandmother they call me," is the brilliant major's cryptic interpretation interpre-tation of the men's attitude. "That's because I say there is only one way to do a thing and that's the right way. We have no time to make mistakes and can have no imperfect work.' Although supposed to be only a doctor doc-tor he can make a splint down in the workshop as well as any of his mechanics- Designing nei splints and apparatus for the wounded and train-ir train-ir new sets of bracemakers to replace re-place the German bracemakers Germany Ger-many recalled when she entered the war is his present job. Making Over the Wounded Nonchalantly Major Maddox will show vou the artificial hand "we made here " which is. of course, his own idea ard labor. According to his assistants, it has more wrist motion than the human hand and can do everything that the real hand does except "hold hands" Malor Maddox is the creator of the Mddox table, from which dressings dress-ings cm be apolied without disturbing the patient. He i- the tvpical American. Beslaes teaching and working in the laboratory labora-tory he moved, with his assistants and enlisted men's help, a lithograph company com-pany out of the present orthopedic quarters- room by room, when they could not go any oPher way. With 1-i- technicians he cleaned the plaster, painted the building, and for recreation recrea-tion went over the plumbing, which hadn't suited him. Let not hi, intimacy with plumbing suggest a lack of scholarly attributes ne used no conservation in collecting collect-ing degrees, honors and fellowships. He "pshaws" them off with a wave of his hand, remarking: "What do these amount to if you can't do the job at hand and do it quickly? It isn't what you have done, but what you can do now that counts. Every man in the American army will be a finer person for having served. He will have earned his light to citizenship. "We are making splints which we detoutly hope won't have to be used on our boys, but which we know will be necessary, so we are making the best that human brains and hands know how. "After the war the man disciplined by the army will step into an office looking for a job and do it in such a way with his honest army 'Yes, air,' and 'No. sir,' that the employer will register mentally, 'Here Is a fine speci men who looks as though he can d liver the goods. I'll try him.' "Xo. ma'am." declared the major, "the army doesn't take away your seU-respoct ; it puts it into you." This department has two artists, Barto V. Matteson and Albert R. Harris, Har-ris, both known in the illustrating field-, who do "close-up" work, putting out the striking posters that hit yem in tho eye with their stirring messages. mes-sages. Both want to sketch at the front to bring heme to us the grim necessity ne-cessity of speeding this war to victory. vic-tory. Turned by the war into a health facto it, the army mescal school Is really carrying on two Industries manufacturing everything for the health and reconstruction of our men at home and abroad and teaching and training enlisted men for military medicine med-icine and surgery. The school' is the court of last appeals ap-peals in military medicine. Water from Missouri camps, typhoid organisms from Vancouver, Wash., are sent here for final, tests. Here, too. since the discovery that rheumatism and many other ailment are the result of bad teeth, X-ray pictures pic-tures of the teeth of every person In military life in Washington, including their families, hare been made. Every lied Cross worker going unread has been inoculated here. The Washerman reaction, a very expensive test when given by Ihe civilian physician, la pei formed on every man in the school. American Science Triumphant! The institution has Its equivent of the tlollar-a-year men when in other activities. Columbia and Harvard degree de-gree men, specialists from all schools, biologists, sanitary engineers, chemists and lawyers perform clerical duties, sweep floors, wash teat tubes until their particular groove la found. 1 n the orthopedic department is Corporal John C. Best, of a large micU western manufacturing corporation, with an income of $1'5,000, which doesn't Interfere with his serving his country at $38 per month with board and keep. The scope of the army . medical school will be' limitless after the war, say physicians from all ranks. "No need," as Brigadier General Arthur puts It, "ever again to go to Germany for medical science." |
