A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . claim having receivedand cared for the first patients admitted to Base Hospital 36. But that is not our onlyopportunity to boast. On December 12, at 3 P. M., Pvt. Raymond Gordon of Co. B 166Inf 42nd Div., was operated upon. Paracentesis Tympani Sinistra, for rehef ot UtitisMedia This was the first stated operation in Base Hospital 36. The day before we hadopened a boil on the neck for one of the men. but I do not have the record of that, or thenam
A history of United States Army Base Hospital No36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917 . claim having receivedand cared for the first patients admitted to Base Hospital 36. But that is not our onlyopportunity to boast. On December 12, at 3 P. M., Pvt. Raymond Gordon of Co. B 166Inf 42nd Div., was operated upon. Paracentesis Tympani Sinistra, for rehef ot UtitisMedia This was the first stated operation in Base Hospital 36. The day before we hadopened a boil on the neck for one of the men. but I do not have the record of that, or thename, as we considered it just routine work. While speaking of the first operation done by Base Hospital 36, we cannot refrainfrom mentioning the last. On Jan. 15, Florence Crane. A. N. C. Base Hospital 36, andFlorian Mack P F C, Base Hospital 36, had their tonsils removed. Mack being the lastone. There were two or three later at Base Hospital 23, but that is another story. While on the subject of tonsils lets mention our biggest tonsil day. We had accumu-lated a ward full of chronic rheumatics on the fourth floor and made a desperate ettort to. Scene in Wrecked in the Red Cross Farm. The Bread Wagon. Hay Wagon. Haymaking, Vittel. Washing in the Village Trough. Bottling Factory, Vittel. get rid of them. We operated on 15 of them one day—March 19, 1918—spending twohours and fifty minutes at it. While the department had many days in which we did agreat deal of operating, this was the biggest tonsil and adenoid day. The work that came to our department was most interesting and as varied as wouldever come to the average clinic. On Nov. 9, we removed tonsils for Lieut. L. L. Bur-stien, M. C, who had true bone formation in each tonsil—large piece of bone Yz inch by1J4 inch by y% inch, with true bone cells and Haversian canals. One day in the Summer of 1918, just after receiving patients from the front—Soisson-Vesle region—two patients on th
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