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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-13

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780243012848

Excerpt from Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Vol. 4: June, 1919 Late in August we were ordered from Suilly up into the Meuse country where the First American Army was being mobilized. *we travelled part of the way by troop train and part by truck. Our main station was about five miles from Verdun. We set up our hospital on the site of an old French field hospital. A number of shacks were fit for use but tents had to be put up for the greater part of the hospital. The Army Engineers piped water to the operating shack, wired our tents and shacks and set up two small electric lighting plants. As we were in a field it was necessary to build roads. At this time the rains had not started but we knew what was coming and built stone roads accordingly. We were about three miles from the rail head at Suilly. From this place we got our supplies and evacuated our wounded to hospital trains there. Evacuation Hospitals Nos. 6 and 7 were at Suilly. Don Peters was surgical chief of No. 7. I had seen him up in the Marne country in June and July, beautiful country all planted with wheat and red poppies, under the sound of constant gun fire and Germans coming towards us. 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.