| Show I i 1 tW a 1 I if ii I a h Itt x j y m I R t t t F I Y W a it t 7 W T 11 t 7 T L r t it r tI I j 1 I II r s c 1 Ir ri rib rie 1 I b t I an h r e Y r P i r I L i t r asIl li 1 I it tm L l 4 rf t II t f r I xv t r I s t kg q l e F Fb I b I IY I I Y 1 WIC WALeeN err m r t i i 13 o 0 N II I Y of time tho United navy Is not net con content r Eli I r tent lent to ho be a mere head hd Y since hI his ap to 10 tho Iho po position he hll hus a dt de to 10 hlll hl department out a as n a conspicuous or of orp p tI and 1 government It is IH hl his pot pet ambition to have hav l to commission slon a of ships In fn of surgeons Instead of oC ofIne In Ine omer Should the hr surgeon generals hope bo realized there would arise II a sudden and argent ot demand for medical corps men IM are endowed with executive ability 1 as well ell 11 ax mere technical I knowledge That ThaI Dr Is IA confident that Ihal his hlA paa ln will be bc adopted II evident Crom ruin the Iho which Is 13 now being 1 Wt In the Naval Medical I school chool at atI I particular Ina Inalien lilt lien young of the medical Irp just ss os the big school nt II prepares line officers for Cor tiro Iho na nation tion lions sea ea service During the past few the tho entire personnel of the medical school has been unusual enthusiasm The Interest t began beSlin when Surgeon Stokes was appointed to tho command of the ho hospital ship Relief with the lion from high authority that the Relief Is hut but the first or of 1 a whole fleet or of hos hOIl hospital pital shIps ThIs was followed b by the Iho ther r surgeon generals request for Cor nn an from congress s to 10 provide a amodel amodel model ho hospital ship which shall surpass In It II construction antI and any ot of the mind ever attempted It Is too that this model ship is 15 isto to 0 be officered by medical corps men with perhaps a 11 master function fie save sae to look after the theP M P tl 11 rl I Boost From the t PresIdent PresIdent Pre Roosevelt by his Te TeIM re recent IM cent action gave fiats the tho nary nn doctors a 11 tot bot Into prominence their s rii ur the tho national capital received little attention from the public The s two taro crack erack rk universities lit at West Point and It at Annapolis ha have VII long been Jeon time the cape rill cal pets of mho tho American public but fame tama of the medical school has ex expanded ver very little Of OC course ono of oft ta t P reasons for this Is to be Jo found In InI I Its HI 4 ii I I II r 11 JO J i I l lI 1 I H LB j 4 f fI I I I I t w HE HEI 7 I j r U I a 1 I i r y f b 1 I Il IlC C s say edical School I rl classes have never numbered more than omen men while those of the great reat government finishing schools urr many times Ihns larger lar r Then too the school Is of rather recent orl origin ln hating crone come Into existence as late as 1 1907 0 The project had been agitated for COl man many years year hut but nothing came cam of It until the tho war wal made It clear that something ot of the kind was of uc ae necessity rhe fact Is that the tho present m n school owes its 1111 being to Surgeon Geu Gell the head Ilea or of the medical corps whoso influence at headquarters Is so 60 potent that he was able to the appointment or of a 11 surgeon to the command or of the Relief In III spite or of the protests of line IIno officers and time the nation ot of Rear Hear Admiral nl as chief or of time the bureau of navigation Not only Is thIs medical friend or of the pres president Ident responsible for the establishment of the school Jut but Ito ho has hall taken the deepest interest In its development Rne nod has oven his collection or of valuable instruments at the disposal of Its Ils faculty Peculiar to Its Kind In III Its system of training the Iho Naval Medical school does not bear n a marked to the tho Annapolis lion linn At the latter school chool the tho average ago or of Is seventeen years For Il a period of four years they are uro all th the rudiments or of the naval r x l and after atter their graduation they round out the course with I two wo years or of practical work on d cruise Time The Notional National school Is really a postgraduate Its lIs pupils are supposed to 10 have hae completed the usual study or of the technicalities of oC their chosen profession proCession before entering and their work In is IR to learn hOI to adapt their knowledge of oC medicine and surgery to 10 the line special Held ot of semi sell service Now Sam does believe It to 10 be Je necessary for Cor him to talO tako a hand handin handIII in III the Iho education or of tho those who have hae nn an ambition to serve him on onboard onboard board the tho hospital slips the III knows there lire are plenty plent or of young sawbones well educated and In theIr profession proCession who ho have hava not nol yet made mad liP up their minds which special branch of oC professional work tho they wilt will take up and It Is from Crom this class that hI he expects to 10 recruit his naval nual surgeons In order successfully to pass paM time Iho required en 00 trat trance e examination to the school al an mist have havo taken Iho full course at al un an accredited medical col lle ego J Bach lIch who Is accepted Is iron time tho clay he enters as all an assistant surgeon a rank rauk corro corros s to 10 that ot of lieutenant ht time tho regular army This entitles entities hint him to toa pay a at the rat rate of oC a year and an extra allowance for COl quarters In case they are not provided Uncle Sam Generous Uncle Sum Sam does not stop slop at this In addition he takes recognition of the time the assistant 1 t 7 I 4 I Ii i I crt President WiRe Vise of e the tale u Medical j ll f e 4 J R 11 has hall devoted to hl his 9 professional In outside mind I gives him him credit lit fit the ver very outset for 11 five of at service In Inthis I thIs respect h he Is put on nn an equality With lIh graduates of Annapolis who m hose t fJ I time of oC natal service Is from I Ithe the moment the they Inter enter the academy All naval ar are allowed 10 per percent percent cent pay for Cor each period of oC fire fhe years service until such bonus honus amounts to 10 40 0 per cent In this to transform those who Iho are arr already well veil equipped Ilof doctors lors luto hito naval surgeons time the of oC cour coarse e Is highly specialized While Il IlIs IlIs Is true trul that man many of the officers who are being nt at time school will spend much limn fit at the seventeen na naval val al hospitals In various arlous parts ot of the country It Is never forgotten n that ac actual actual sea service Is the principal feature and practice an afloat oat Is deemed the most Important essential All thinKS It must bo be ad that Uncle Sam am under the tho corn cony ut of Surgeon on General awl and Ids his assistants has hall ad adopted led the most method of oC n K Kt the t naval t with ur Surgeons are not made In It a day It is really IL a calling which requires much practice In order to al an any especial degree of It II would woul l practically be out omit of oC the question to 10 liS as men who are only just JUHt out or of the medical colleges to active service of oC the strenuous sort demanded by b the navy In tine of war wal It won would hi ot of course ba J nn alit excellent school for Cor the tho recently hut but It might he bo n a severe experience for tor time tho others liat Is duo to the 1111 who hate en enlisted listed lilted In Uncle Sums Sams service Is natal that none non hut but experienced I surgeons I shall he with chit their physical oversight especially when hen th they are afloat It ft would hI be to ob enough surgeons from the Ihl ranks rauls ot of Ih the profession lit amt the tho pres preset et line To ro the man who has food the opportunity to 10 become a competent surgeon In general practice the pay ot fit ota fita a member 1111 be I ot of th the naval corps COralS otters slight Inducement It I is also true that In Ii a majority ot of cases casIs It would happen that when he had to acquire the necessary lIar experience he wound would have arrived al an ago that would have haye made him disinclined to 10 undertake such III ac service rims It was that the gov found It to go Into Inlo I the surgeons business ot of making Its Ils own Naval Base Baso Hospital The Tho surgeons who are 1 being at the Natal Medical school have hae an opportunity for n II good deal ot of practical work In ht the tho running of oC the magnificent nw new hospital whIch serves er erI as I an to 10 the medical ThIs flue and very ery f lete turn turo vas n e only u II ear eal ago ngn and It Is d designed to 10 be th the gr great at naval base hospital of the Stales Plant have hae beau recently en enlarging It to II a capacity of oC beds to lu gether with the construction of oC new of officers quarters quarter that will afford accent for Cor an number ot of and students The national legislature In 1903 ore ere aled additional vacancies In limo tho corps and provided l for tor forn n It similar Increase In the strength ot of time tho corps year 1111 up to 1908 the tho plans plan for fOI further Increases will be continued beon l th time present ent year Ir con enn i inot nut not bo be predicted but they thoy will In III clew fW ot of the lime number of nol new hat and cruisers being Jel placed In commission llon and especially Is such adlon likelY In Ute Ih event shut the Iho present scheme for Cor a 8 small all fleet ur of hos hM ships shills meets with approval the tho administrative r or oC limo burnau lit at a rn ore not nearly so 1111 man Ill the they were wert about securing cn capable young oung doc dime I t lore tOrR to fill 1111 an any needed quota qUoIn The add udd added J ed cd open to ot of time thO corps and the Iho enhanced pres limit boa latelY conic clime to 10 brunch branch l lor or of the service havo havn combined to 10 I interest among graduates of leAI colleges lint It Is believed will ly provo prove productive or of enroll 1 It JI Y |
