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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…

While Adolf Meyer was engaged in preventative measures back home, some of his colleagues worked on treatment in France. Thomas Salmon believed that early intervention could decrease the magnitude of shell shock and shorten its course in victims. He…

The war may have ended in 1918, but the work of mending soldiers’ bodies and minds continued. Shell-shocked soldiers returning from the front now needed help with adapting to life back in the United States. Shell shock thus became a civilian…

In 2013, Dr. Wei-Ping Andrew Lee (front center) performed the first-ever bilateral arm transplant at Hopkins. The patient was Brendan Marrocco (on Lee’s left), a veteran of the Iraq War

Seated, from left to right: 1) Prof. G. C. Whipple; 2) Dr. G. C. Shattuck; 3) Miss H. Bailey; 4) Miss A. Fitzgerald; 5) Dr. R. P. Strong; 6) Miss G. Cowlin; 7) Dr. Lina Potter; 8) Mr. H. E. Scarborough. Standing, from left to right: 1) Mr. C. R.…

Alice Fitzgerald started the International School for Public Health Nurses for the Florence Nightingale International Foundation in London. Katherine Olmsted continued the work by organizing the second course at Bedford College at the University of…

Service Medal awarded by United States where it is known as the World War I Victory Medal or simply the Victory Medal. Any member of the U.S. military who served between 6 April 1917 to 11 November 1918, 12 November 1918 to 5 August 1919 in European…

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