PREFACE. 
In the sundry civil act tor 1914, under the appropriation for 
printing and binding for the War Department, it was provided: 
That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be 
used for the publication from time to time of bulletins prepared under the 
direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the information of medical 
officers, when approved by the Secretary of War. 
Similar provision was made in the sundry civil act for 1915, and 
it is hoped that this appropriation will be continued from year to 
year in the future. It is intended that these bulletins shall be used 
for the publication to the Medical Corps of the special technical 
work of the service laboratories, the reports of the boards for the 
study of tropical diseases, and other work of medical officers which 
is of too special or technical a character to make it acceptable for 
publication in the medical journals and the Military Surgeon. 
The bulletin will be published, if possible, at least quarterly. 
Officers of the corps are requested to submit suitable articles to this 
office for use in the bulletin, with the understanding that they may 
be published elsewhere by the author if found not suitable for the 
bulletin. 
'i • .* William C. Gorgas, 
Surgeon General ', United States Army. 
September 24, 1913. 
ORDER. 
A board of officers of the Medical Corps, representing the Sanitary 
and Statistical Division and the Library of the Surgeon GeneraTs 
Office and the Laboratory of the Army Medical School, is hereby 
convened for the purpose of collecting materials and arranging for 
the publication of the bulletins for the instruction of medical officers 
authorized by the act approved June 23. 1913. 
Detail for the board : 
Lieut. Col. Champe C. McCulloch, jr- 
Maj. William J. L. Lyster. 
Maj . Eugene B. Whitmore. 
By order of the Surgeon General: 
Chas. M. Gandy, 
Lieutenant Colonel , Medical Corps , United States Army. 
