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A Navy nurse performs a laboratory procedure in the clinical laboratory, Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1919. Naval pharmacists, nurses, and physicians operated clinical laboratories at Naval medical treatment facilities well into the twentieth century.
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The administrative support staff at Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1919. Flanking a medical officer, a pharmacist and chief pharmacist are seated with Navy nurses and "Yeomanettes," women recruited to perform clerical work during the World War I.
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Five Naval Base Hospitals were organized and deployed to France, Scotland, and Ireland to provide medical support for the Atlantic Fleet and ground forces in Europe. The Base Hospitals occupied existing structures. Pictured here is a ward...
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"What the Navy is doing: Samaritans afloat. Hospital ships care for the injured and sick in the Fleets and follow to the scene of action to administer to the wounded. Equipped with every instrument and appliance known to science, the surgeons of the American Navy stand in the front rank."
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"Navy Dispensers of Sunshine: Pharmacist Leon French (right) and CPHM Geo. G. Strott, U.S. Navy at the dressing station of 6th Marines, A.E.F. in the Verdun Sector, April 1918. Their happy and optimistic dispositions did much to keep up the spirits of troops.