...Optometry Corps shall be examined for promotion in accordance with section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army," approved April 23, 1908 (USO, 1940 edition, title 10, sees. 101 and 102), and with the proviso...

...Optometry Corps shall be examined for promotion in accordance with section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army," approved April 23, 1908 <USC, 1940 edition, title 10, sees. 101 and 102), and with the proviso...

...of the House Committee on Military Affairs, with the earnest hope that said Bill No. 4838, entitled "A Bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the Army," in its amended form, may secure his favorable consideration and support. Paper by DRS. WILLIAM...

...other purposes, as is illustrated by the following quotation from Public Law 101, 60th Congress, an act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army, dated 23 April 1908: "SEC. 2. That the Medical Corps shall consist of one Surgeon General, with...

...has been presented before Congress a bill known as the Edmonds Bill, HR 5531, the object of which is to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army by providing for a Pharmaceutical Corps in that department, and to improve the status and efficiency...

...successful mobilization.50 Root's ideas for a reserve corps soon grew into concrete form with a 1908 act "to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army."51 The new corps was believed necessary to overcome serious wartime shortages of physicians,...

...1906), 28 1 . 3. Hume, Victories of Army Medicine, 104. 4. ARSG-1908, 121-128. 5. For details of "An Act to Increase the Efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army," signed into law on 23 April 1908, see Huidekoper, Military Unpreparedness, 343-346; "The Medical...

...hereby expresses its hearty commendation of the recent memorial of the American Medical Association to Congress in support of a bill to increase the efficiency...department of the United States army now before that body. " 2. That this society considers the passage of said bill simply an act of justice to one of...

...American Pharmaceutical Association strongly endorses all sections of the Edmonds Bill (HR No. 5531), a bill to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army, to provide a pharmaceutical corps in that department, and to improve the status and efficiency...

...trypanosome which is the etiologic agent of epidemic thyroiditis. NAVAL MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. — A bill "to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Navy" was passed by the Senate on August 12. The bill provides "that a medical reserve corps, to be...