British medical journal . the great British dominions beyond the seas—IndiaAustralia, NewZealand, Canada, and South Africa—havomedical units in the field, though they are all worked on thesanie system as units which arc strictly speaking RoyalArmy Medical Corps units, aud they arc all under thecontrol of the Director-General of Medical account of one of these—the Canadian Aiiuy MedicalCorps—written by Surgeon-General Fothcringham of thatcorps, will be published iu an early issue. There havebeen one or two officered entirely by volunteerssupjjlied by the faculties o
British medical journal . the great British dominions beyond the seas—IndiaAustralia, NewZealand, Canada, and South Africa—havomedical units in the field, though they are all worked on thesanie system as units which arc strictly speaking RoyalArmy Medical Corps units, aud they arc all under thecontrol of the Director-General of Medical account of one of these—the Canadian Aiiuy MedicalCorps—written by Surgeon-General Fothcringham of thatcorps, will be published iu an early issue. There havebeen one or two officered entirely by volunteerssupjjlied by the faculties of certain universities in theUnited States of .\merica, and some units working underthe aegis of the British Red Cross Society. These alsohave been under the general control of the Director-General of the British Jledical Service. (jeneual most of the military hospitals iu France the ad-ministrative work is done by permanent officers of theRoyal Army Medical Cordis, and the bulk of the executive. -C. TBKB»ms« 1 XUO Mbdicai. JlIVBSIL J THE AND ITS WORK. [AUG, 1917 work by temporary officers, who contract to serve fur theyear, but in most cases reuew tlieir contracts as a matterof course. For tlie first eiglitecn montlis or more all theseoflicers Tverc Tolunteers, but siuce all men under 41 arenow liable for military service, a considerable propni-tion ofthose now arriving are selected by civilian Medical \yarCommittees, in response to the demands of the \Var makinn the selection the coiumittocs have isgnrd notonly to the fitness of the individual for foreign service, butalso to the question of his indispensability or otherwisefrom the point of view of the civil population among whichbe has boen practising. Intermediate between these two orders come a certainnumber of officers who have received commissions for thedurati(5u of the war, and who are usually doing special-B-ork of some kind, and a large uumber of Territorial andSpecial
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