Administrative History

The Army Medical Corps (est. 1908) is a staff corps of medical professionals.

Citation:

NUCMC data from New Jersey Hist. Soc. for Academy of Medicine of New Jersey. Records, 1775-1969 (name not given; Medical Officers' Reserve Corps)

LC man. auth. cd. (Hdg.: United States. Army. Medical Corps; created by the National Defense Act of 1916 as amended by the Act of June 4, 1920)

U.S. War Dept. Annual Rept., 1919, v. 1, pt. 3 (Order No. 73, Aug. 7, 1918: Medical Corps; Medical Corps, National Army; Medical Corps, National Guard; and Medical Reserve Corps consolidated in Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army; Jan. 1, 1919 Medical Officers' Reserve Corps reestablished and reorg.)

Rept. of the Surgeon General of the Army, 1907-08 (act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Dept. of the U.S. Army, approved April 23, 1908, provides that the Medical Dept. should consist of a Medical Corps, Medical Reserve Corps, Hospital Corps, the nurse corps, and dental surgeons; immediately following act, officers in Medical Dept. were recommissioned in corresponding grade in Medical Corps)

A few general directions with regard to destroying mosquitoes, 1904: t.p. (Medical Corps, U.S. Army)

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