The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-01

Strength of the Corps.
''The corps As at present constituted
consists of 445 IN the medical corps, 80
in the medical reserve corps tactive
list and 90 in the dental corps By
rank and under command Of Brigadier
General Gorgas there are 10 colonels,
a lieutenant colonels, 105 majors, 169
captains and 2S0 first lleutenants
There are also over 1900 first lieuten-
ants OF the medical reserve corps on
the inactive list.
'grhe army is commanded by a ply
dcian. Major General Leonard Wood,
chief Of staff, entered the service In
1885 as an assistant surgeon after
graduating from Harvard Medical
school,
Every section of the country is rep
resented in the medical corps. From
Maine TO California and from Mime
sofa to Louisiana come these well
equipped officers.
"In writing on this topic in 1907 we
noted that the alumni Of the Univer-
stty OF Pennsylvania headed the list,
with the University of Virginia sec
ond and George Washington Columbian
third In the medical corps of 1914
the Washington institution passes the
University of Virginia, the mother Of
army surgeons, and assumes second
place, Virginia dropping to fourth, be-
hind Jefferson, which seven years ago
was in fifth place.
''The different colleges, with their
graduates in the medical corps aud the
medical reserve corps, are as follows:
University of Pennsylvania, H
George Washington Columbian .......... "A
JEFFERSON ..............,.........'... -
University OF Virginia. 2S
University Of Maryland. 20
University OF Michigan. II
College OF Physicians and Surgeons Of
Columbia university ...,................. 10
New York university and Bellevue hos
pltal ......'.'...s..,..s...,.'. IL
Georgetown, Rush and Harvard, each. 1s
University Of Buffalo, Medico-Chirurg-
ical, Johns Hopkins and Tulane, each. II
Northwestern, Vanderbilt and WASH
ington, each ..........",,..............
st. Louis university y.......,"............... Z
Yale and Medical College Of Virginia,
each ..................,.......
Physicians and Surgeons OF Baltimore,
Detroit College Of Medicine. Miami,
Creighton, Tufts and Physicians and
Surgeons of Chicago, each............,. 6
University OF California. University Of
Cincinnati. University College Of Rich
mond, Startling, Baltimore Medical,
University of Iowa, Louisville Med
fnal and Rarneq aaph 4
University OF Illinois. Medical College
OF Ohio University of Texas, Atlanta
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
University of Louisville and Syracuse,
eaoh ...........'''.''........'''
MANY of the officers hold two or
more degrees. General Gorgas is A. B.,
University. Of the South; M. D., Belle
vue and d. S., University of Pennsyl-
vania.
1.-THE oldest medical officer in the
army in years and in point of service
is Colonel L. Mervin Maus, chief sur
geon of the eastern department, sta
toned at Governors Island, N. Y. He
entered the service Nov. 10, 1874, at the
age of twenty-three.
Doctors as Line Othcers.
"The medical men in the service are
not confined to the medical corps. In
the quartermaster corps is DR.. George
Fl. Penrose, University Of Buffalo, 1886.
In the cavalry there are two physi-
clans serving as line officers. d. T. E.
Casteel, University Of Maryland, 1885,
a captain in the Sixth cavalry, and
Rodman Butler, an alumnus of the
University of Pennsylvania, first lieu
tenant in the Sixth cavalry.
"In the infantry Captain Ralph 81.
Van Deman, while stationed at Fort
KY, studied medicine at Mi
ami and received the degree of M. d.
In 1893.
1.-TWO captains Of the Coast artillery
are doctors of medicine, Captain Rus.
sell P. Reeder and Captain George L.
Hicks, Jr.
major General F. G. Ainsworth
entered the army as an assistant sur
geOn in 1874, and at the time Of his
retirement in 1912 the army had as its
ranking officers two physicians who
entered the service as assistant sur
yeons and had forged their way to the
General Leonard Wood and |
Major General f. c. Ainsworth. This
circumstance will not like |
Y occur again"