MEDICAL UNIT SAILS TODAY

The University Unit for service at the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris will sail this morning for Gibraltar on the Canopic from the the Commonwealth Pier in East Boston. They will serve for three months until June 30.

H. Cushing 95, M.D., A.M., will be in charge of the University Unit as head surgeon, and R. B. Greenough '92 will be the executive officer. In addition there will be eleven assistants drawn from the faculty and graduate students of the Medical School. Four operating nurses are also in the party.

Though the main object of the men and women who go will be to relieve the sick and wounded, they will have an excellent opportunity to gain invaluable experience in surgical work. There are 400 beds in the American. Ambulance Hospital, and 150 of these will be under their charge. The remainder are attended to by Parisian surgeons. The University Unit will relieve the doctors and nurses from the Western Reserve Medical School of Cleveland, O., whose assignment closes on March 31., and the University group will be succeeded by a unit from the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, or Johns Hopkins.