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Excerpt from George Miller Sternberg: A Biography As Surgeon - General of the Army (1893 Sternberg created the Army Medical School, organized the Army Nurse Corps and the Dental Corps, established the Tuberculosis Hos pital at Fort Bayard, and many general hospitals during the spanish-american War. His own early difficulties in acquir ing the knowledge for which he thirsted led him to the liberal minded policy of encouraging medical officers to engage in scientific research in laboratories established by him in the larger post hospitals. Similar aims resulted in the establish ment by him of the Typhoid Fever Board (majors Reed, Vaughan and Shakespeare), which gave us a new point of view for ...
Excerpt from George Miller Sternberg: A Biography The following pages have been written in the sincere hope that the life and work of General Sternberg may serve as an inspiration to the present and future generations of American physicians to achieve renown in the science of preventive medicine. To my near friend who have known of my efforts and have given me encouragement and sympathy, I desire to express my thanks. I am especially indebted to Dr. George M. Kober and Mr. Emile Berliner for aid and encouragement in my work, and to Drs. Fielding H. Garisson and Frank J. Stockman, both of the Surgeon-General's Library, for the revision of the manuscript for the press. Last but not least I des...
General Sternberg was a Union hero of the Civil War, a pioneer bacteriologist and authorized Reed's yellow fever research.
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The third in a four-volume work that covers the history of the Army Medical Department from 1775 to 1941, this volume traces the development of the department from its rebirth as a small, scattered organization in the wake of the Civil War, through the trials of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, up to the entrance of the United States into World War I.A time of revolutionary change both in the organization of the U.S. Army and in medicine, the period climaxed with the golden age of Army medicine, when U.S. medical officers played a leading role in research that developed new and effective weapons in the war against epidemic disease. --Foreword.