Letterman Army Hospital

Robert M. Cohn and Pamela D. McNamara Department of Metabolic Research, Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104. Robert H. Herman Endocrine-Metabolic Setvice, Letterman Army Medical Center, Presidio of San Francisco, California 94129. 

An internship at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco came next. In July, I crossed the country in my recently acquired beat-up 1948 convertible Studebaker and arrived in San Francisco feeling like a courageous pioneer. I delivered 50 babies, performed two appendectomies, and spent my free time cruising the Officers Club for female companionship, which was readily available. I could hardly fcresee that in four years, my life would change dramatically and I would become a real pioneer, exploring the vast, secret world of chemical warfare at an obscure Army installation called Edgewood Arsenal. 

Details on Letterman s reorganization of the U.S. Army field hospital and medical supply systems are provided in Gordon W. Jones, The Medical History of... 

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