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Because the significance of the f ollowing statements in the official 

 " Appeal," in behalf of the Brotherhood, may not be fully noted by 

 the casual reader, we single them out f or special attention here : 



"It is obvious that such a Brotherhood could not exercise an 

 important infiuence at once. But our modest expectation f or prompt 

 results should not prevent us from attempting now to take the first 

 Step in the right direction. Many important results have often had 

 small beginnings." 



" It should be expressly understood that it is not the object of 

 the proposed Brotherhood to infiuence the feelings and views of any- 

 one regarding the prohlems involved in the present war." 



Perhaps the most effective comment we can add to the foregoing 

 is the f ollowing, from Lancet, on the " link of medicine " : 



We announce in another column the arrival in England from the 

 United States of a complete medico-military unit, known as the 

 " Chicago Unit," comprising the füll medical and nursing Organiza- 

 tion for a general hospital of 1,040 beds. The establishment con- 

 sists of 32 medical men (physicians, surgeons, specialists, a radiog- 

 rapher and a pathologist) and a nursing staff of 75 women, includ- 

 ing the matron, The unit has been recognized by the War Office. 

 Every one of our readers will admit with gratitude the practical 

 sympathy of a splendid sort which is thus displayed by the United 

 States, while we understand that similar units may be expected to 

 arrive from America, taking their departure from other great cities, 

 and animated with the same quick and deep desire to minimize as far 

 as possible the horrors of war. From a private communication 

 which we have received from one of the staff of the Chicago Unit, 

 it is easy to guess that there will be no dearth of applicants in other 

 American centers for what will necessarily be very hard and per- 

 haps dangerous work. The medical men and nurses of the Chicago 

 Unit were selected from several hundreds of applicants, every man's 

 post could have been filled at least six or seven times, and a brisk 

 competition prevailed among candidates for the nursing staff. The 

 same rivalry will hold good elsewhere. And here we may add that a 

 generous Citizen of Chicago has personally offered to meet the large 

 difference in pay between the salaries of military nurses in the 

 British army and the salaries of nurses in the United States, where. 



