A History of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

Few of the physicians who have chosen military medicine as a career have written or can write with the facility, brevity and human understanding that mark the efforts of Colonel Ashburn. His history of the medical department of our army is therefore not a dry document overloaded with tables and statistics and charts but a free running, interesting account that will attract not only the medical soldier but the general reader. As every physician should know, military physicians have contributed greatly to the advancement of medical science. William Beaumont may be considered the patron saint of the group in America, but Reed, Carroll, Lazear, Gorgas, Craig, Ashford and many others form a notable list. The contributions of John Shaw Billings to the progress of both medicine and literature in our country cannot be estimated in monetary values. In his record of events, Colonel Ashburn gives us the background against which