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Title: A history of United States Army Base Hospital No. 36 (Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery Unit) organized at Detroit, Michigan, April 11th, 1917
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Cooper, Alice Evelyn, ed Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery
Subjects: United States. Army. Base hospital no. 36, Vittel, France
Publisher: (Detroit)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, treatedwith gentleness and attention, and operated with thegreatest care and consideration. Theirs is a fullappreciation of our efforts. It is sufficient commendationthat, we have been privileged to live in this great era ofhistory in this zone of war, and serve humanity to thebest of our ability. Any personal privation or sacrificecannot be measured with those of the brave and heroicsoldiers who have served. Base Hospital 36 was born in a spirit of patriotism.It has endeavored to maintain the customs, discipline,and standards of the United States Army. With others,it has exemplified for the first time in the history of theMedical Department, that a Base Hospital under theRed Cross and a regular army organization, cansuccessfuly operate on foreign soil. As the years roll by, and we follow the pursuits ofpeace, our achievements of humanitarian service to thesuffering soldier will afford sufficient reward for oursacrifice. Burt R. Shurlv, Lt. Col., Medical Corps, U. S. A. mm psf * * *
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Burt R. Shurly Lt. Col. and Medical Director HISTORY OF BASE HOSPITAL 36 FOUNDATION AS soon as the United States had declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Mr. Carl E.Schmidt, of Detroit, Michigan, ofifered $35,000 to establish a second base hospital for thatcity. He communicated first with Major Burt R. Shurly, Medical Officers Reserve Corps, Deanof the Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery, who had previously been appointed to takecharge of the medical department of the base hospital unit organized by the Harper Hospital ofDetroit; and Major Shurly at once telegraphed to Colonel Jesse Kean, of the Red Cross andArmy Medical Department, for authority to establish and equip a Detroit College of Medicineand Surgery Unit to be recruited from the faculty, staff, graduates and students of the College. Authority was granted next day. The Unit, now designated as Base Hospital 36, was toconsist of twenty-four officers, sixty-five nurses and one hundred and fifty enlisted men. MajorShurlyhistoryofuniteds00coop

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