A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . ould probably be somewhat amusing to a civilian doctor, fromone of our large hospitals in America, to inspect our operating room equipment. He woulddoubtless consider our home-made tables rather crude, and our other appointments, unlikethe elaborate armamentarium to which he was accustomed at home. But with all, we feelthat our end results would compare favorably with those of civilian surgery which had beenperformed under the most favorable circu
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . ould probably be somewhat amusing to a civilian doctor, fromone of our large hospitals in America, to inspect our operating room equipment. He woulddoubtless consider our home-made tables rather crude, and our other appointments, unlikethe elaborate armamentarium to which he was accustomed at home. But with all, we feelthat our end results would compare favorably with those of civilian surgery which had beenperformed under the most favorable circumstances. We had also a very excellent and satisfactory X-ray equipment installed, consistingof a large transformer, with heavy tube stand, for making radiographic plates, and in anadjoining room, which might be darkened, a fleuroscopic table. This room was designedespecially to facilitate operating, which might be done directly under the ray, and wasfound highly useful in reducing difficult fractures and removing the more elusive bulletsand bits of shell fragments. Major A. B. Smith and Capt. R. E. Scraflord were in chargeof this Capt. George P. Raynale. Lt. Arthur McArthur. Our first patients were admitted on March 5th, 1918, when we received fifty-two Frenchwounded from the Verdun sector. From this date convoys of patients continued to arrive,from time to time, and we were never without from two to six hundred wounded soldiersunder our care. On April 28th, Lt. McArthur was detached for temporary service as battalion surgeonfor the 135th Infantry, where he served for two and one-half months on the Alsatian front,returning July 12th, 1918. Up until June 1, 1918, our patients had been exclusively French and French colonials,but on this date we received a train load of wounded British—our first English speakingpatients. The poor chaps had been fighting against heavy odds, with almost constant de-feat, since the onset of the big German drive, which began March 21st
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