Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-24

and performed yeoman service
throughout the entire time our
country was in the struggle. The
corps was proud TO count among it's
members some of the most distin-
guished surgeons of this country,
whose regulations were interna-
tional. The first American unit to
go into the line was medical uuit.
which took the line with the British
in May, 1917, and was made up al
most exclusively of civilian doctors
who had only been commissioned
actively for several weeks. Over a
thousand of our officers were work.
ing with the British forces. doing
work for which they were unable to
supply sufficient officers.
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Colonel Martin concluded by urg-
ing every physician and surgeon to
accept commission in the reserve
corps, and explaining the work
which the corps hoped to accom-
plish.
The Health Commissioner was fol-
lowed by Colonel Reuben Miller of
the Surgeon Generals Department.
Colonel Miller spoke of the work
which the medical department had
done and expressed the hope that
Colonel Martins recommendation to
the doctors about joining the corps
would be followed. He told his
audience that at the beginning of
the war the German medical staff
was able to return so per cent. of
the wounded men to the line, while
the French and British could bring
barely % per cent. back. Later the
French were able to bring up their
percentage to 50. When the United
States took up their part in the war,
records showed that they were able
to return a total of 80 per cent. of
our wounded to the firing line: the
best record of any nation in II
struggle.
Major c. r. Goldman, of Phila-
delphia introduces a resolution which
was unanimously passed by the aud
ience and forwarded to the Board for
approval, urging every Medical Col
lege in the state to adopt the system
of the Students Officers Training
Corps and institute special courses
which would train the students for
later service as officers in the Medical
Corps.
A very interesting lecture on blood
TRANSMISSION was delivered by Major
Walker Estell Lee, of Philadelphia.
Major Lee illustrated his lecture with
motion pictures which made his
points doubly clear. Colonel Mar
tin opened the discussion on this
subject, and he was followed by Ma
jor George r. Moffitt, of Harrisburg,
who is in the city on leave from the
Base Hospital at Fort Mcpherson,
Georgia. Major Moffitt told some of
his experiences in two years service
in an Army laboratory and explained
the systems of blood TRANSMISSION
used by the base hospital in several
thousand operations of that type.
Suggests Campaign
! DIR. S. Leon Cans, of Philadelphia,
| delivered a lecture on Pennsylvania s
campaign against veneral diseases
explaining the attempts of the
Health Department to control and
eliminate the diseases. DIR. Cans
spoke of the prevalence of all man.
ner of venereal diseases in the State
and suggested educational cam
paigns as means of bettering these
conditions. He went over the most
recent methods of curing different
| types of diseases, and told which
were in use at present in the State
| The discussion on this address was
opened by Peter p. Mayock, OF
Wilkes-B Barre.
The Importance of Reconstruction
in Civil Accidents was the theme
chosen by Jonathan NJ. Wainwright
of Scranton. DR.. Wainwright told
of many different types of accidents
with which medical authorities and
industrial organizations were most
familiar, and explained the methods
of reconstruction in the more SER
ious cases. The discussion was op-
ened by John B. Lowman, of Johns:
| town.