The Medical School and
the War
( 1-7LY. When the Inited Staits entered the
air the members of the faclIty of the medical
choolt ofered their service and sent a ,tatement
to Wa hington of the special work in which cach
was trained. In repy the request was made that enough
men should remain to kcep the school in eficient opera-
tion, the rest sparcd for governnent er% ice. Four memi-
hers of the facult\ arc now in the arm\ medical service,
one in public health ses ice, and one is a captain in the
infantry service. Two men whom wc cxpcctd to add to
the faculty this year arc likwise in scrvice. Tooffetthe
loss in instructional force we have an unusual number of
student assistants this ear.
The members of the facultv who remained in Madison
have undertaken special duties in addition to those of
teaching. Members of the clinical staff have devoted a
large amount of time to medical examinations of recruits.
The district advisory medical board is located at the
Clinic. A member of the medical faculty is in the State
Council of IDefense and others arc members of various
state and national committees. In the laboratories
scientific research has been directed toward war prob-
Icms, especial attention being devoted to the lungs, to
poisonous gasce, and to gas masks to enable aviators to
fly where the air is thin.
Students. Most of the medical students have enlisted
in the Medical Reserve Corps of the army or navy sub-
ject to military duty. It is the intention of the govern-
ment to keep these students in school so long as they
maintain good standing, because the need of keeping up a
supply of well trained medical men is recognized. Ten or
fifteen per cent of the students have, however, gone into
active military service and are in various lines of military
work from heavy artillery to aviation.
Future. The war is likely to produce many cripples for
whom special treatment will be needed. It is quite pos-
sible that the medical school may play an active part in
this work. Possibly this will be the first use to which the
Bradley Memorial Research I lospital soon to be erected
may be put.

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