Author : Harvey Cushing
Release : 2018-03-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918 (Classic Reprint) by : Harvey Cushing

Download or read book From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918 (Classic Reprint) written by Harvey Cushing. This book was released on 2018-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918 Dr. Cushing saw the war on the Western Front at close quar ters. His first duty was in the early spring of 1915 when he served with a Harvard Unit in the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France. At that time he became familiar with the French Service de Santé. From Paris he went on a visit to the Royal Army Med ical Corps and saw at first hand their work in Flanders. On his return to this country, as part of the preparedness campaign, he set about organizing one of the Base Hospital Units which were recruited from the professional staff of a number of university medical schools. As director of one of these units, known as Base Hospital No. 5 - the second military organization of any kind officially sent overseas - he sailed for France again in May 1917. Throughout that year he served as an operating surgeon with the being detached from the Unit for special duty dur ing the battles for the Messines and Passchendaele ridges. In June 1918 he was transferred to the Medical Headquarters of the a.e.f. As senior consultant in neurosurgery, and participated in the three major engagements at chateau-thierry, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.