Identifier: proceedingsofthe7189asso (find matches)
Title: Proceedings of the... Annual Meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. Meeting
Subjects: Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Surgery, Military Medicine, Military Military Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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Mexico, among whom I may mention Drs. Carmona yValle, La Vista, Liceaga, and many others. A generous tablewas spread. On Monday, the first day of the Congress, after registering,the fee being $5 American money, or $10 Mexican, we attendedthe meeting of the Section of Military and Naval Surgery (withwhich Railway Surgery was combined) at the Hospital of Instruc-tion. By the kindness of the Director, Colonel Lopez, we wereshown through the hospital, a two-story stone building, which wasin admirable order. The operating room was fitted up in accord-ance with the fullest requirements of antiseptic surgery. Our con-ductor was Major Federico Abrego, one of the seven professorsin the Fscuela cle Aplicacion. or School of Application attachedto the hospital. We were shown also the class rooms for the stu-dents in different branches taught. In the courtyard was a dis-play of the field equipment of the Medical Department, tents, am-bulances, and hooded wheeled litter. A drawing of the ingenious
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644 Assistant Surgeon General C. H. Alden. hand litter used in the Mexican Army is appended. ( Fig. I.) AsMajor Alans article, already read at this meeting, takes up theMedical Department and the Army Medical School of the Mexi-can Army in detail, it is unnecessary for me to do so. It is to be observed in studying the Medical Department ofthe Mexican Army that their arrangements are necessarily differ-ent from ours and we cannot directly compare them with ours.Just as our Army was modeled on that of the English and ourregulations are largely inherited from England, the MexicanArmy inherited Spanish methods which have been modified by itsspecial needs. The Medical School, established in 1880, is pat-terned after the French School of Yal de Grace at Paris. Its pro-fessors are appointed by Concours. The students of the Mili-tary Medical School are selected from the students at the NationalSchool of Medicine, and complete their course of five years at theMedical School while undergoing sp

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