"When the Russian army is on a peace footing, the medical corps does not exist as a unit. Each fighting force has its physicians and hospital corps. In was the personnel of a medical corps attached to a regiment consists of one senior and four junior surgeons, one senior and twenty-four dressers, one apothecary dresser, one hospital sergeant and three orderlies. Stores for a field hospital containing 16 cots are carried, and each dresser carries a knapsack filled with first-aid packages; 32 stretchers are provided. The medical transport consists of four one-horse carts for medical stores, one two-horse wagon with stretchers, etc., and four four-horse ambulances." -- "the Tacoma Times", May 5, 1904; p. 4