Author: Martha L. Sternberg

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781528146760

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 the prevention of this disease; and of the Yellow Fever Commission, headed by Major Walter Reed, who, with his associates, discovered that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito. The enormous gain to medicine and public hygiene through these discoveries is well known. Finally, after his retirement from active duty in the Army, General Sternberg devoted the evening of his life to social welfare activities in Washington, of which his work on sanitary improvement of habitations and the care of the tuberculous was perhaps the most important. He was highly honored in his lifetime, a president of the American Medical Association and of many other important scientific societies. The present volume has been revised for the press by Lieut. Co]. F. H. Garrison and Dr. Frank J. Stockman, both of the surgeon-general's Library. Written as it is by a lady of the Army, about one of the most eminent of our Medical Corps, I cordially commend the book to the medical profession. 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.