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Schroeders, V.D. Tumors of fishes. Dissertation in Russian. Translation in Army Medical Library, Washington, DC, St Petersburg, 1908. 

U. S. Army, Medical Library, Current List of Medical Literature. ... 

FIGURE 1.2. Surgeon General William A. Hammond s ambitious reforms of a tradition-bound U.S. Army Medical Department earned the talented administrator a court-martial. Exonerated of all charges years later, Hammond nevertheless rose to prominence in medical circles and was the founder of the American Neurological Association. From Harper s Weekly, 1863. Illustration courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division. 

Letter from the Surgeon General s Office to S. T. Latimer, October 26, 1864, Samuel Thomas Sargent Latimer papers, MS C99, U.S. and Confederate Army medical papers, folder 18, National Library of Medicine. 

The authors thank Mr. Pinal C. Patel and the library staffs at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense and Purdue University. 

Fig. 3-25. Edward B. Vedder (1878-1952) was director of pathology at the Army Medical School (now Walter Reed Army Institute of Research) from 1904 to 1913. It was during this period that he wrote his seminal book on beriberi. After serving in the Philippines during World War I, Colonel Vedder returned to the Army Medical School in 1919. It was there that he wrote this still-useful book on chemical casualties. From 1925 to 1929 he was chief of medical research for the Chemical Warfare Service. He had an illustrious civilian academic career following his retirement from the army. Photograph Courtesy of National Library of Medicine. Bethesda, Md.

There are several published volumes which discuss the origin and activities of the Chemical Warfare Service in World Wat I. These include Benedict Crowell, America s Munitions, i ij-i iS (Washington GPO, 1919) Amos A. Fries and Clarence J. West, Chemical Warfare (New York McGraw Hill, 1921) and Medical Aspects of Gas Warfare, Volume XIV of the series MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD WAR (Washington GPO, 1926). Volumes XV and XVI of the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WORLD WAR (Washington GPO, 1948), prepared by the Historical Division, Special Staff United States Army, contain data on the Chemical Warfare Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). More valuable as a source of information is the official history of the Chemical Warfare Service, American Expeditionary Forces, a copy of which is on file in the Chemical Corps Historical Office. Especially useful in this history are the appendixes which ate copies of pertinent directives. On the organizational development of the Chemical Warfare Service in the zone of interior, the most fmitful sources of information are M. T. Bogert s and W. H. Walker s History of the Chemical Service Section, on file at the Technical Library, Army Chemical Center, Maryland, and the annual reports of the CWS for the years 1918, 1919, and 1920. The retired CWS files in the National Archives contain some important documents. 

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