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Show VALUABLE LESSON LEARNEDJN WAR American Medical Organization Organiza-tion Backed by Experience in World's Conflict. DOCTORS IN WAR ZONE Four Leading Army Medical IIen Study Methods for Three Years. LONDON, April 2 (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Am- erican soldier ought to be the healthiest health-iest soldier in the world, because he starts out backed by a medical organization organ-ization that has been given all the valuable lessons learned by the big British army in its three years' experience exper-ience in this greatest of wars. The statement made by Sir Alfred Keogh, surgeon general of the British Brit-ish army, to an Associated Press representative, rep-resentative, revealed for the first time the close co-operation between the medical branches of the American and British armies maintained since the early days of the war. For this fact the American people must thank Sir Alfred, the man responsible for tho health of the five million British soldiers sol-diers scattered all over the various theaters of war, who has placed, and is still doing so, .ill the information gained in the war at the disposal of the American army medical men. U. S. Doctors at Front. Right now, Sir Alfred said, there arc in this country four of the leading United States army medical men who have been studying the British medical medi-cal and sanitary arrangements in France and who have toured the hospitals hos-pitals in England and studied the royal roy-al army medical corps at home. They are Surgeon Pleadwell, Colonel Brad-loy, Brad-loy, Major Ford and Major Lister. "We have given and still are giving the United States army the benefits of our three years' experience In keeping keep-ing healthy our enormous army," Sir Alfred continued. "In fact a close cooperation co-operation between the medical branches- of our--army and yours has- been maintained since the very beginning of the war. American army medical men have from the start been keeping in touch with our medical and sanitary sani-tary arrangements and if the results of their observations have been applied ap-plied to their own organizations, as I have every reason to believe they have, the United States army ought to take the field under better medical supervision than any in the world. In other words, the American soldier ought to be the healthiest, backed as he is, by a medical organization that has benefited by all the experiences of our great armies." |