Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-11 | Page 13 | S. L. Physician Eager to Join War as 87th Birthday Nears

S. S L. L Physician Eager to Join Joint War as Birthday Nears I Reserve Colonel Asks for Active Duty He is nearing his year but Dr S S. S C. C Baldwin noted Salt Lake City orthopedic surgeon is itching for action in this greatest of all wars Reminiscing on the eve of his birthday Thursday the gray- gray thatched doctor mild mannered and blue eyed revealed he still is a colonel in the army medical reserve reserve reserve re re- re- re serve and has asked for active duty at a base hospital I I hope I get in he said Dr Baldwin of 2605 East South str street et has been practicing since he graduated 58 years ago from the University of Louisville Ky He went to Helena Mont in 1887 and has been in Salt Lake City since 1894 In World orId War ar During the years of American participation in the World war Dr Baldwin joined the medical corps as a lieutenant rose rapidly in rank to lieutenant colonel He was in charge of medical department department depart depart- ment at Fort McHenry Baltimore Md bid before becoming director of surgery for the Port of or New York having 13 hospitals with a total of beds under his tion It was a big job he recalled There was a lot to be done with boatloads of wounded returning al almost almost almost al- al most ev every ry day from across the Atlantic This War Var to Be Worse Vore I believe this war will be worse than the last one in every way he mused The wounds probably will be different what with so many new weapons Surgery and medicine have made great strides however and I look to the saving of many lives and limbs that would have been lost had the injuries occurred in 1917 or 1918 Other medical aids to save lives of American fighting men and their allies are new methods of blood transfusion including the storing of plasma and improved anesthetics and antiseptics Doctors Doctors Doctors Doc tors can do more for wounded men today than they knew how to do doin doin doin in the last war Dr Baldwin said The Kentuckian proud he was born in Abraham Lincoln's home state and on Honest Abes Abe's birth- birth date was unable to say what his wife who celebrated her birthday on January 29 and their son Albert B. B Baldwin plan in celebration of or his Thursday t Wi V 7 v etc l i 1 p. p ij f f t J y s sy r if t S r k I M re V tJ LIKE ABRAHAM LINCOLN HE lIE WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY Dr S. S C. C Baldwin Will be 87 years ears old on Thursday