326  Pharmaceutical  Corps  in  U.  S.  Army.  {Am-^°a^-I^f!'m" 
cember,  1914,  there  were  1,500  commissioned  pharmacists  in  the 
Army  alone. 
The  commander  of  the  German  Army  Pharmaceutical  Corps  is 
the  Oberstabs-Apotheker  and  he  is  attached  to  the  Medical  Section 
of  the  Prussian  Minister  of  War  and  has  rank  equivalent  to  that 
of  a  general  of  brigade. 
Each  army  corps  has  an  associated  sanitary  corps  under  the 
control  of  an  apothecary  officer  (Stabs-Apotheker)  who  has  charge 
of  the  pharmaceutical  service  and  supplies  and  is  the  director  of  the 
laboratories  connected  with  that  corps.  In  Berlin,  at  the  main  Sani- 
tary Depot,  many  of  the  medical  and  surgical  supplies  are  manu- 
factured under  the  pharmacists  of  the  corps.  Each  army  corps  has 
likewise  a  supply  depot  and  a  manufactory  of  supplies  to  provide 
for  the  medicines  and  dressings  for  that  corps  and  the  pharmacist 
officer  is  specifically  charged  with  keeping  up  supplies  of  these  and 
the  list  of  necessary  medicines  includes  many  important  medica- 
ments. While  at  the  main  supply  depot,  in  Berlin,  tablets,  oint- 
ments, ampoules,  bandages,  sutures,  plasters,  etc.,  are  manufactured 
in  quantities  the  corps  factory  has  many  things  to  make. 
France  has  perhaps  the  oldest  attempt  at  organized  army 
pharmaceutical  service  and  shortly  before  the  present  war  this  was 
completely  reorganized,  and  it  is  now  given  credit  and  lauded  for 
the  efficient  services  performed  along  many  avenues  including 
chemical  services  of  great  value  to  the  civil  as  well  as  to  the  mili- 
tary authorities.  The  commander  of  the  French  Army  Pharma- 
ceutical Corps  is  called  an  Inspector  and  ranks  as  a  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. The  complete  organization  includes  the  titles  of  principal 
pharmacists,  pharmacists,  pharmacist-majors,  assistant  pharmacist- 
majors  and  with  rank  as  colonels,  lieutenant-colonels,  majors, 
captains  and  lieutenants.  When  the  French  peace  army  of  500,000 
men  was  rapidly  increased  to  3,500,000  trained  soldiers,  the  pharma- 
ceutical corps  was  automatically  increased  from  the  pharmacists  in 
reserve,  many  of  whom  had  already  seen  service  and  experience  in 
the  sanitary  corps. 
In  January,  191 5,  over  1,200  of  the  mobilized  pharmacists  who 
had  the  necessary  experiences  and  training  were  commissioned  as 
first-class  assistant  pharmacist-majors  with  the  rank  of  lieutenants. 
During  the  present  war,  the  duties  of  the  French  Army  pharmacists 
have  been  greatly  extended  so  that  to-day  they  are  the  chemists 
