October 26, 1917] 



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the Medical School, and Dr. Alexander C. 

 Abbott, while others have been sent to other 

 camps. 



Those members of the staff who are still on 

 active duty at home are concentrating all their 

 energies toward helping America to win the 

 war. In addition to carrying on the regular 

 work, a course in neurology and brain surgery 

 is being given in the medical school imder 

 the direction of Dr. Charles Frazier. 



About fifty officers of the Medical Eeserve 

 have been picked by the War Department to 

 take this course preparatory to their assign- 

 ment to duty either with the various training 

 camps or in France. Dr. Frazier has charge 

 of the course in clinical surgery. His as- 

 sistants and the courses on which they are 

 lecturing are : Dr. George Dorrance, anatomy ; 

 Dr. Theodore Weisenberg, physiology; Dr. S. 

 D. Ludlam, pathology; Dr. George P. Mueller, 

 operative surgery on the cadaver, and Dr. 

 William G. Spiller, neurological diagnosis. 



The officers taking this course come from 

 all parts of the United States, Pennsylvania 

 having been designated by the War Depart- 

 ment as the particular institution to fit officers 

 doing medical work along these lines. 



It should be explained that there are several 

 members of the medical school faculty who 

 are doing very important government work, 

 but still keeping up their work in the medical 

 school. Among these may be mentioned Dr. 

 Alonzo Taylor, professor of physiological 

 chemistry; Dr. Richard M. Pearce, professor 

 of research medicine, and Dr. Edward Martin, 

 professor of surgery. Dr. Taylor, who per- 

 formed important service for the State De- 

 partment in Germany and France before our 

 entry into the war, is now giving the govern- 

 ment the benefit of his experience on the ex- 

 portation of foodstuffs to neutral countries; 

 Dr. Pearce is doing work for the Eed Cross, 

 while Dr. Martin is a member of the Council 

 of National Defense. The following is a 

 nearly complete list of those members of the 

 medical school faculty who have been given 

 leave of absence to serve the government : 



Dr. "Walter W. Cornell, instructor in osteology. 

 Now stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. 



Dr. Penn Gaskill SkiUern, instructor in anatomy. 

 In the Navy with rank of lieutenant. 



Dr. J. Leon Herman, instructor in anatomy. 

 Member of Navy Base Hospital No. 5 with rank 

 of lieutenant. 



Dr. Alexander C. Abbott, director of the depart- 

 ment of hygiene and bacteriology. Now stationed 

 at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., with rank of major. 



Dr. David H. Bergey, assistant professor of 

 hygiene and bacteriology. Now stationed at Fort 

 Oglethorpe, with rank of captain. 



Dr. Eobert A. Kelty, instructor in pathology. 

 In the Army. 



Dr. Baldwin H. Lucke, assistant instructor in 

 pathology. In the Army with rank of first lieu- 

 tenant. 



Dr. John Speese, instructor in surgery and sur- 

 gical pathology. In the Army with rank of first 

 lieutenant. 



Dr. Henry P. Brown, Jr., assistant instructor in 

 surgical pathology. In the Army with rank of first 

 lieutenant. 



Dr. Alfred R. Allen, associate professor of neuro- 

 pathology. In the Army with rank of major. 



Dr. Samuel Leopold, instructor in neuro-pathol- 

 ogy. In the Army. 



Dr. William B. Oadwallader, instructor in neuro- 

 pathology. In the Army. 



Dr. M. Howard Fussell, professor of applied 

 therapeutics. In service with the Tuberculosis 

 Commission of the Army with rank of captain. 



Dr. William Pepper, assistant professor of clin- 

 ical pathology and dean of the medical school. As- 

 signed to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., in charge of one 

 battalion with rank of major. 



Dr. Albert P. Francine, associate professor of 

 medicine. In Army wth rank of captain. 



Dr. J. H. Austin, associate in medicine. As- 

 signed to the Rockefeller Institute with rank of 

 first lieutenant. 



Dr. G. G. Ross, instructor in surgery. Member 

 of Naval Base Hospital No. 5 with rank of lieu- 

 tenant. Ordered to France September 15. 



Dr. D. B. Pfeiffer, instructor in surgery. As- 

 signed to Fort Oglethorpe with rank of captain. 



Dr. A. P. C. Ashurst, instructor in surgery. Di- 

 rector of Episcopal Base Hospital Unit with rank 

 of major. 



Dr. E. L. Eliason. Member of University Base 

 Hospital Unit No. 20 with rank of major. 



Dr. George M. Laws, instructor in surgery. 

 Member of University Base Hospital Unit No. 20. 

 Now on duty at Fort Hancock, Augusta, Ga., with 

 rank of first lieutenant. 



