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1/2 length color portrait of William Thayer wearing his military uniform, standing turned towards the side with arms crossed across his chest.

In the summer of 1917, Adolf Meyer became involved in a new war-related initiative: psychiatric screening. Thomas Salmon had succeeded in convincing the US Army to screen recruits to exclude from the military those who might be most susceptible to…

This map served as a reference for medical inspectors like Young, who needed to locate different hospitals and laboratory facilities. Inside, a map of France provided the locations of the facilities and more detailed information about them. These…

Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. The commission passed…

Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. The commission passed…

Salvarsan, also known as 606, was a synthetic drug developed by the scientist Paul Ehrlich in 1909 to treat syphilis. It was a path-breaking development that revolutionized the American medical profession’s ability to treat the disease. When World…

Album Includes sketches of wartime and soldiers, by P. Revelard, M. Boux, S. Lemaire, Arthur Vertommeu, and others, notes from doctors, nurses, and soldiers, impressions of war, and photos.