These units were initially organized and supported by the American Red Cross, which continued to play a major supporting role throughout the war. Hopkins was one of the many medical centers in the country that had made tentative preparations- before the U.S.’s entry into the war-to form a medical unit that could serve as a base hospital. Finney and colleagues at Hopkins patriotically and eagerly joined the Medical Reserve Corps.
Finney had joined the Maryland National Guard in 1898 during the Spanish-American War and had remained active with the guard. The hospital left New York on Jas a unit of the Army Medical Reserve Corps accompanying the First Division of American troops sent to France after the U.S. 18-the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, unit (see Figures 1–5). Finney had already completed his tenure as President of the ACS when at age 53, he was appointed Director of Base Hospital No. Cameron, MD, FACS, FRCSEng(Hon), FRCSI(Hon), noted in his American College of Surgeons Presidential Address, “John Miller Turpin Finney: The First President of the American College of Surgeons,” Dr.
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