Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army, the author visited the Arlington National Cemetery.

 

The source material contains information about medical officers, including their roles, experiences, and challenges:

• A group of five physicians in Marlinton were equipped with horse or auto transportation.
• Medical officers were examined by a board of medical officers and granted "retirement" status after the war of 1917 due to favors granted by their kind.
• The author notes the number of medical officers granted "retirement" status after the war of 1917 became a national scandal.
• The author writes of his movement thence to "poor roles" and "crude stripping" in January detachment, equity aroused in deshabille at "the Bake".
• Colonel A. C. Creighton devised activities for medical officers designed to test and improve their physical and mental qualities.
• "Pep drill" was assigned for those assessed "pro class", and a young medical lieutenant, recently a football player and coach, was assigned to drill the medical officers.
• The author found it necessary to turn away the "new doctor" in camp and appeared in numbers for treatment of their many diseases, thereby nagging their own medical detachment physicians.
• In 1925, the author was named a Major, M.R.C., and Surgeon of the 100th Organized Reserve Division and detailed for two weeks active duty, reporting August at Fort Belvoir, near Washington, D.C..
• The author notes that in the early days of medical practice, he attended Hill Young Cora in an "illegitimate" child-birth.
• The author states that medical schools should evolve along national lines rather than be thrown into confusion and violent uplift of the Rockefeller Foundation.
• The author tendered his resignation as Major - Medical Officers Reserve Corps.
• The author writes that there is a scarcity of physicians in the rural sections.
• The average age of practicing physicians in the county is fifty-five years.
• There is a note of a scarcity of doctors in both state and nation, according to the author.
• The author states he was nearly seventeen by Porter-Dentist office, and preferred consulting them, without any money of my own, if a bill was rendered.
• In July 1946, while in Washington, on duty for the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army, the author visited the Arlington National Cemetery.
• After the war of 1941, Colonel and Mrs. McNeel (children) decided to live in his home county, Pocahontas, and began the general practice of medicine, having spent military years, plus graduation in medicine in hospital, university teaching and in the army.
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The sources mention the following information regarding smallpox:

• In 1896, an epidemic of smallpox required the county to quarantine Camp Wytheville.
• At that time smallpox was greatly feared, and widely cases appeared. A general quarantine was proclaimed by the county court as late as 1914.
• All three commissioners drove a livery rig to Slate Fork on Elk River to "quarantine" small-pox cases at Camp.
• The disease in a modified form was referred to as "Varioloid" and not confluent "Variola".
• In the year 1896, universal vaccination was in order, and although universally vaccinated at one year, the author suffered a vivid inoculation.
• The author notes surprise by the severity of symptoms, at night sweats, and malaise suffered as a result of a simple sore on the author's biceps.
• Dr. McClintic told the author that the real survey made by regular physicians over the county, about the year 1896, when an epidemic of smallpox required the Royall Camp.
• Every general practitioner of medicine is familiar with general alarm in the presence of epidemic disease and the "cold plague" of the pioneers, as builders of practice.
• Smallpox at the camp was not universal, and no deaths occurred as far as is known.