Am  jour  Pharm. >  William  C.  Braisted,  M.  D.  37* 
June,  1921.  ) 
partment  in  Japan  and  was  decorated  by  the  Mikado.  As  Assistant 
Chief  of  the  Bureau  he  assisted  in  the  complete  reorganization  of 
the  medical  service  of  the  Navy.  For  a  time  he  served  as  Attending 
Physician  at  the  White  House  in  the  administration  of  President 
Roosevelt. 
From  1912  to  1914,  he  was  Fleet  Surgeon  of  the  Atlantic  Fleet. 
In  1913,  he  was  elected  President  of  the  Association  of  Military 
Surgeons  of  the  United  States.  February  18,  1914  he  was  appointed 
to  the  post  of  Surgeon  General  and  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Medicine 
and  Surgery,  with  the  rank  of  Rear  Admiral. 
Upon  the  shoulders  of  Admiral  Braisted  fell  the  responsibility 
for  the  surgical,  medical  and  pharmaceutical  readiness  of  the  Navy 
in  the  World  War,  not  only  in  the  matter  of  supplies,  but  in  person- 
nel also.  So  well  did  he  perform  his  task  that  every  call  made  upon 
the  bureau  was  answered.  To  his  care  nearly  120,000  sick  and 
wounded  soldiers,  sailors  and  marines  were  entrusted;  his  jurisdic- 
tion extended  over  the  Marine  units  fighting  in  France,  over  the 
Naval  aviation  stations,  over  health  conditions  in  submarines  and 
the  Sanitary  and  Medical  features  of  the  transportation  of  the  Army 
to  Europe  accomplished  by  the  Navy  in  fact,  over  the  myriad  activi- 
ties touched  upon  by  the  Naval  forces. 
An  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  his  task  may  be  obtained  from  the 
fact  that  of  1,235,933  American  troops  returned  by  June  20,  19 19, 
111,522  of  them  were  sick  or  wounded  and  in  his  keeping. 
Admiral  Braisted  has  brought  about  the  reorganization  and  en- 
largement of  the  Medical  and  Hospital  Corps  by  securing  necessary 
legislation  for  increased  personnel  with  increased  rank  and  pay.  He 
has  secured  hospital  construction  and  administration  of  the  most 
up-to-date  kind  of  the  Navy.  He  has  founded  four  colleges  at  New- 
port,  Norfolk,  the  Great  Lakes  Training  Station  and  San  Francisco, 
respectively,  for  the  training  of  Naval  pharmacists.  In  addition  he 
established  a  correspondence  course  in  pharmacy  for  men  in  the 
Navy's  Hospital  Corps.  The  first  hospital  ship  of  the  Navy  to  be  de- 
signed and  fitted  out  from  the  keel  up  for  the  special  purposes  of 
the  Medical  Department,  now  under  way  at  the  Navy  Yard  at  Phila- 
delphia, was  undertaken  under  his  auspices.  He  has  had  prepared  the 
book  of  instructions  for  the  Hospital  Corps,  as  well  as  the  Manual 
of  the  Medical  Department  for  Medical  Officers,  the  Compend  for 
Masters  of  Auxiliary  Vessels,  special  reports  on  the  War  in  Europe, 
etc. 
