TO TRAIN MILITARY DOCTORS

A department in military medicine will be established at the University Medical School if a plan proposed by the Massachusetts Medical Society is carried into execution. Dr. Samuel B. Woodward '74, president of the society, has announced a committee to engineer the establishment of such a department, and it is proposed to raise an endowment of $100,000, the income from which will sustain the work to be carried on.

The undertaking was brought forward at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society held yesterday, and it was made the subject of an address by Dr. Philemon E. Truesdale, M. D. '98. Dr. Truesdale pointed out with many details from the history of military operations, that the medical profession has never been prepared for any of the wars in which this country has been engaged, and that it is not prepared now. In the course of the address it was stated that of the 145,000 physicians in the United States very few were graduated with any education in military medicine, and that accordingly opportunity for such instruction should be given. This country will make every effort to profit by the experiences of England and France in this regard.

There are at present 70 medical schools in the country and not a military medicine department in any of them, the nearest approach being a military chair in medicine at the New York University. This would add to the importance of the proposed department in the University.

The committee appointed to supervise the plan consists of the following graduates: Dean E. H. Bradford '69 of the Medical School; Dr. Arthur N. Broughton '93; Dr. Edward C. Streeter '14; and Dr. Philemon Truesdale, M.D. '98.