Johns Hopkins Magazine -- November 1998

NOVEMBER 1998
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WOMEN OF WAR

H E A L T H A N D M E D I C I N E

Women of War
Medicine's Motto: Be Prepared

Hopkins medical units were not trained military, yet hospital staff serving in the university-affiliated general hospitals quickly found they were in the U.S. Army. The list of personal equipment issued to medical officers in World War II reads like "a Super Boy Scout's list for overnight camping," points out Hopkins historian Thomas B. Turner:

One cantle bag; one set of mosquito bars; one folding canvas basin; one pistol belt; one brassard; two wool blankets; one meat can; one canteen; one comforter; one folding cot; one canteen cover; one cup; one flashlight; one fork; one steel helmet; one quarter pound of foot powder; one mosquito headnet; one knife; one diaphragm gas mask; one first aid packet and pouch; ten shelter tent pins; two shelter tent poles; one roll of waterproof bedding; one spoon; one suspenders belt; two identification tags; ... and one thunderer whistle.

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