Report on sixth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, and meetings of the Permanent Committee : The Hague, the Netherlands, June, 1931 / report for the delegation from the United States of America by William Seaman Bainbridge.

  • Bainbridge, William Seaman, 1870-1947.
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[1932]
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    RECRUITING, TRAINING, AND ADVANCED TRAINING OF MILITARY MEDICAL OFFICERS AND PHARMACISTS Official Reports Sedee (Dutch Indies).—Following an account of the recruiting, education, and training of the military medical officers and pharmacists in his own country and its colonies, Capitaine-Medecin G. A. Sedee, Army of the Dutch Indies, proceeded to point out the differences between his own and other countries and to depict, from his viewpoint, the ultimate ideal. In view of the notable existing differences, a separate discussion was devoted to the Military Medical Service in The Nether¬ lands and in the Dutch Indies. The military surgeons and pharmacists of the Dutch Army can be divided into two groups: (1) Medical officers and pharmacists of the active service; (2) Medical officers and pharmacists of the Reserve. After having passed the medical or pharmaceutical examination in one of the four Universities of The Netherlands, surgeons and pharma¬ cists may enter the Army. They must be of Dutch nationality and physically fit for military service. The newly recruited surgeons are then occupied for some time in a Military Hospital, where they learn the military peculiarities of their future profession. In 1930, the School of Military Surgeons of the Reserve was estab¬ lished at The Hague, for the purpose of providing a more technical education. This school is comparable, in part, to the Application School of the Medical Service in France, Belgium, and elsewhere. No distinction is made in the Dutch Army between the medical officers who follow their career in the laboratories or hospitals and those who function as regimental surgeons. The Dutch Army has spe¬ cialists in surgery, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, venereal and cu¬ taneous diseases, psychiatry, internal diseases; there is also an Army hygienist. With the exception of the latter, they are connected with the Central Hospitals of The Hague and Utrecht, where transportable sick soldiers are sent from the other garrisons when their condition re¬ quires the care of a specialist. The military pharmacists, aside from their pharmaceutic occupation, carry out chemical analyses for the military hospitals, in the military pharmacies. Dutch Indies.—The corps of medical officers of the Colonial Army is much more numerous than that of the metropolis, for a notable por¬ tion of the Dutch Army is scattered throughout the entire Archipelago in garrisons with several posts, almost all of which have military surgeons. These officers are obliged to serve in the Colonial Army for