Harold Wellington Jones Papers 1878-1958

Jones, Harold Wellington, 1877-1958

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Harold Wellington Jones (1877-1958) was born in Cambridge, Mass. He attended M.I.T. and received his M.D. degree from Harvard in 1901. He graduated from Army Medical School in 1906. He served with Pershing in Mexico (1914-16), where he organized the army's first motor ambulance company. During World War I Jones helped develop motor ambulances and commanded the Beau Desert base hospital in France. A surgeon, Jones served at Staten Island, Fort Stotsenburg in the Philippines, Fort Leavenworth and ...

Army Medical Library (U.S.)

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The Army Medical Library began in 1836 when Surgeon General of the Army Joseph Lovell first established a collection of medical literature for official use. John Shaw Billings, the first Librarian, greatly increased collections and initiated the Index Catalogue. By 1936 the library held more than a million items and was considered one of the premier medical libraries in the world. From the guide to the Materials relating to the one hundredth anniversary of the Army Medical Library, 1...

Hume, Edgar Erskine, 1889-1952

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Edgar Erskine Hume, a major general in the U.S. Army medical corps, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1889. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Centre College in Danville and earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1913. He entered the U.S. Army medical corps in 1916 and commanded all American hospitals in Italy before transferring to France near the end of World War I. He later directed the American Red Cross in Serbia during a typhus epidemic. During World War II,...

International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy 10th 1939 Washington, D.C.

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