Photo of Surgeons on Board the Red Cross Mercy Ship

Photo of Surgeons on Board the Red Cross Mercy Ship

While female nurses dominated the Mercy Ship expedition, it carried a small number of surgeons too. Seven of them hailed from Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. They are pictured here in a photo from the voyage. M.H. Todd was an alumnus and Instructor of Orthopedic Surgery in the School of Medicine. The other six men were alumni and young members of the surgical staff at the Johns Hopkins Hospital: John C. Colston, R. Fayerweather, L.C. Spencer, H.C. Slack, Henry M. Shaw, and V.N. Leonard.

Bauer and Black, To the front in Europe's war; a photographic review of the equipping and loading of the steamship "Red Cross" and her departure from New York, 1914 (Chicago and New York: Bauer and Black, 1914).

Bauer and Black

1914

Library of Congress