Download or read book The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, 1928, Vol. 3 written by Edwin P. Wolfe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War, 1928, Vol. 3: Finance and Supply The purpose of this volume is to record the manner in which the Medical Department functioned as a supply department during the World War and to give details concerning Selected articles Of supply. Because of the breadth of the subject, it is manifestly impossible to include herein all matters relating either to the administrative features of the subject or to the supplies themselves. Since this is the first time an attempt has been made to consider fully the his tory of Medical Department supplies, it is appropriate that due consideration be given to the pre-war history of supplies. More especially does this apply to that period of time intervening between the spanish-american War and the World War, for it was during this interval that the Medical Department not only brought its field equipment to a high state of e mciency but also established for itself a reasonable reserve of such equipment. Furthermore, the supply experiences of the Medical Department in connection with the Mexican border mobilization of our Army (1911 - 1916) make a fitting prelude to any considera tion of World War medical supply matters, for the one merged imperceptibly into the other. It is to be regretted that it has been possible, through lack of space, to use only two of the reports of activities Of the medical supply depots in the United States. The report of the New York medical supply depot was chosen as the type depot for description, because it always has been our most important depot and was the parent from Which the others might be considered to have sprung. While its methods of procedure may have differed in certain respects from those of the other depots, and while it is true that some depots handled certain classes Of articles to a preponderant extent, nevertheless the account Of one of these supply depots answers present purposes very well. On the other hand, since the motor ambulance supply depot at Louisville was the only depot of its kind, a chapter has been devoted to it. 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.