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Joseph Marshall Flint surveys and reports
Title
Joseph Marshall Flint surveys and reports, circa 1914-1920.
Physical Description
0.63 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English
Notes
Box 1: Volumes 1-5. Box 2: Volumes 6-7.
In English.
Provenance
Gift of Dr. Joseph M. Flint, 1920.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Joseph Marshall Flint (1872-1844) graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1900. He later took a full-time professorship in surgery at Yale Medical School. In 1915, Flint went to France to work in a hospital in Passy. During World War I, he proposed and organized the first United States mobile medical unit, the Yale Mobile Unit. This unit was staffed and financed by Yale and was first established at Base Hospital 39 in Limoges before heading to the front.
Summary
Seven typescript volumes of surveys and reports created by Joseph Marshall Flint concerning the Yale Mobile Unit during World War I.
Volume 1: Survey of Limoges as a Hospital Center of Five Thousand Beds; Report of Evacuation Hospital No. 18 during the Aisne Offensive; and Report of the Use of the Narrow Gauge Railroad for the Transportation of Wounded with Special Reference to the Conditions Obtaining at Nobile Hospital No. 39.
Volume 2: Report on the Ambulance Chirurgical Automobile as Employed by the French Army.
Volume 3: Plan of Evacuation and Hospitalization of the Nth French Army.
Volume 4: Report on the Operation of Mobile Hospital No. 39 during the St. Mihiel Offensive.
Volume 5: Part II: Report of the Operations of Mobile Hospital No. 39 with a Study of the Equipment of the Ambulance Chirurgical Automobile.
Volume 6: Activities as Liaison Officer for Mobile Sanitary Formations between the Chief Surgeon, A.E.F. and the French War Office / Activities of Mobile Hospital No. 39, A.E.F. from Organization to St Mihiel Offensive.
Volume 7: Report of the Activities of Mobile Hospital No. 39 from the St. Mihiel Offensive to Demobilization.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 01, 2022
References
Joseph Marshall Flint Surveys and Reports. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Joseph Marshall Flint Surveys and Reports. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Occupation
Soldiers France 20th century.
Surgeons France 20th century.
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