Gen. Troussaint inspecting Fahnestock Field Hospital, Paris (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Gen. Troussaint inspecting Fahnestock Field Hospital, Paris
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Paris
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Call Number: LC-B2- 3538-3
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artolog (2 days ago | reply)
Ange-Francois Cyprien Troussaint, M.D.
Director-General of the French Army Medical Service.
The hospital he was inspecting, the gift of New Yorkers Gibson, Clarence and William Fahnestock, is described in the Journal of the American Medical Association, June 26, 1915:
"
AN AMERICAN FIELD HOSPITAL
A field hospital of the type used in the American army has just been exhibited in Paris. It is due to the generosity of the Fahnestock family of New York. It consists of twentytwo khaki-colored canvas tents. Eight conical tents are •for the use of the staff. Six oblong tents are to be used for the wounded; each tent can receive eighteen so that there is a capacity of 108 wounded. Five hospital tents have a double covering, a circulation of air between the two layers of canvas maintaining an even temperature within the tents. Three of these five are for operation rooms; the fourth is used as a pharmacy and the fifth is for the reserve medical appliances. Three tents are intended each to accommodate two officers. These twenty-two tents and their contents are placed on four trucks furnished by the French government. To this unit, which is about to go to the front, are attached ten large automobiles belonging to the American hospital of Neuilly. Each of these cars can carry four or five wounded men sitting and three who are unable to sit up. The great utility of this ambulance will be in seeking out the wounded at the first aid post behind the line of fire and transporting them rapidly after the first dressings to the stations."
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