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Show Thousands of Soldiers Owe Lives to Laboratory FORT LEWIS, WASH. Thousands Thou-sands of American soldiers who never heard of the First Medical General laboratory owe their lives to it. The unit backstopped American physicians and surgeons in the European Eu-ropean theater for 25 months. The first of four such units in the United States army, it was set up In Salisbury, England, in June, 1943, where it helped the medical corps make quick and accurate diagnoses that could definitely be established only through laboratory tests of tissue, tis-sue, blood and other body components. com-ponents. In March, 1945, the laboratory moved to Paris, where if was housed In the Pasteur institute and later In the school of pharmacy at the University of Paris. There the outfit used a brand new laboratory secretly completed during dur-ing the occupation by the French underground under the noses of German occupation troops. As army units go, the laboratory Is small 23 officers and 70 enlisted men. Its work covers eight fields bacteriology, serology, virus, pathology, path-ology, entomology, parasitology, veterinary work and chemistry, which is further divided into blood chemistry, toxicology and the work of sanitary engineers. |