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Show IMANY DOCTORS READYFOR WAR Twenty-one Thousand Physicians Physi-cians and Surgeons Available Avail-able in Case of Hostilities. ALL UP-TO-DATE MEN Thoroughly Equipped for Medical Reserve Work With Most Modern Methods. Chicago. March 0 Should open hostilities hos-tilities be declared between the United Unit-ed States and any other nation, the Bovernment would have at hand ready for instant duty a force of more than "1 000 physicians and surpeons. thor-OUghly thor-OUghly cqu.pped for medical reserve work In addition to those on whom would rest the brunt of directing the laud and 8ea forces of the nation would have the benefit of a know edge of all the most modern methods of pro. vlding for the sanitation of vast armies arm-ies of treating gunshot wounds or the more terrible injuri.-s Inflicted by bursting sh. lis, poison pases and the other deadly accompaniments of mortem mort-em warfare. i-j The medical reserve work Is broad-lv broad-lv under the direction of Dr. Franklin Frank-lin H. Martin of Chicago, member of the advlsorv commission for national, defense and chairman of the commit- ii.: nnnorcil can 1,1 II tee on meun;iii mu - --- I tion. Already this committee Bitting E with the advisorv commission and the I cabinet members who form the coun.il for National defense has had placed J before it in detail a review of the ' methods used in European war hos- pitals with particular emphasis on the most effective ways of dealing with the various problems in both the French and German hospitals. The medicine committee selected by l Ifartin Is composed of William C. Cor. ng, surgeon-general of the army; J William C. Braisted, surgeon-general of the navy; Rupert Blue, surgeon-general of the Public health service; Col Jefferson R. Kean, director general, American National Red Cross, Dr. Frank F. Simpson, chief of the med- ical sector of the commission for national na-tional defense and Dr. William J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. For more than a year before the appointment of the advisory commission commis-sion work for medical preparedness had been done by a joint committee appointed by various medical associations associa-tions which began the work of tabulat. ing the national resources in hospitals and medical supplies, appointed snb committees in the several siat":s and sought to have at least one practicing physician and surgeon in each county enrolled for medical reserve duty nr W. J. Mayo Is chairman of this committee, com-mittee, Dr. Frank F. Simpson, of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, is its secretary and Dr. Franklin Frank-lin H, Marlin is a member. All thre I are members of the medicine and san- itation committee of the advisory commission. com-mission. Other members of the joint committee are: Dr. George W, Crlle, of Cleveland; Dr. George E. Brewer, of New York, and Dr. Edward Martin of Philadelphia Philadel-phia The commission has headquarters in the Munsey building in Washington, D. C-, and frequent meetings have been arranged for. As chairman of the committee Dr. F. H. Martin wns able to bring before be-fore the committee Dr. Earl Connell, associate in surgery at Columbia university uni-versity who was with the American IamDuianco in PTanoe irom rsovernDor, 1914 to March 19ir, organizing Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's hospital, and who, through Ambassador Gerard, was given exceptional opportunities of seeing the medical organization and the medical activities of Germany In March and April. 191."; Dr. Alexis Carrell of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and Nobel prize winner, who visited the base hospital at Lyons, France did surgical work there and investigated the healing ot woundB and Is now chief surgeon and director of laboratories In a research hospital supported by the Rock' follrr Foundation and the French govern, ment, Dr. Connell and Dr. Carrell told the methods employed in the war hospitals hos-pitals and their accounts were supplemented sup-plemented by Colonel Herbert A. Bruce, former inspector general of Imenicai service with the Canadian Expeditionary forces and now consulting con-sulting surgeon with the French arm. ies "The committee received much surgeons," said Dr. Martin. "The knowledge from the three eminent surpeons." said Dr. Martin. "Tho chief surgeons of our army and navv are now advised of the mistakes and the successes of the medical work done in the European war. This in. formation would he invaluable in th- event of war. Dr. Carrell and Dr. Bruce had to cable to their governments govern-ments for permission to talk before the council. Our committee findings and the results of the independent work of the previous committee in preparing pre-paring lists of surgeons for reserve i duty and in mapping out the resources of hospitals and the medical supplies and drugs are available for the uee ot the active head6 who would take hold in the event of war. We are going right along with the preparation work and will meet frequently with the council " Similar preparatory work is being dono by the other committees of the advisory council which include ono on labor, another on transportation I and communication, a third on science and research, a fourth on raw ma. terials, minerals and metals, a fifth on munitions and manufacturing, and a sixth on supplies. |
