Army Doctors Rise: U.S. Medical Corps Founded
The Second Continental Congress authorized a military hospital capable of serving an army of 20,000 men, creating what would become the U.S. Army Medical Department. The legislation appointed a Director General and four surgeons to oversee care for soldiers whose greatest enemy was disease, not enemy fire. This founding act established the principle that organized medical support was essential to military effectiveness, a concept that saved untold lives in every subsequent American conflict.
July 27, 1775
251 years ago
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