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unusual facts about Medical Department



Takaki Promontory

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Baron Takaki Kanehiro (1849–1920), Director-General of the Medical Department of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the first man to prevent beriberi empirically by dietary additions, in 1882.


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August Hoch

He spent two years at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was influenced by Dr. William Osler.

Francis Allyn Olmsted

He made a sea voyage to the Sandwich Islands for his health, and after his return he graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1844.

George W. Weightman

He served as the Commander, U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas from August 2004 until July 2006.

Granville Sharp Pattison

He was appointed professor of anatomy at New York University on the reorganisation of its medical department in 1840, a post he retained till his death on 12 November 1851.

Henry F. Thomas

He renewed his studies in the Ypsilanti Normal School, (now Eastern Michigan University) and graduated from the medical department of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1868 and commenced practice in Constantine.

King's College Hospital RFC

The merging of King's College Hospital medical department in 1999 with the already merged Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital led to the creation of Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Rugby Football Club, an amalgam of three formerly distinct hospital rugby clubs each with a long history.

Paul Morrow

If there are any personnel with whom he shares an active dislike, it seems to be Doctor Bob Mathias; command decisions that affect the Medical department can lead to tense (and loud) verbal encounters ('Force of Life', 'The Testament of Arkadia') between the two men.

Thomas Graham Balfour

In 1857 he was appointed secretary to Sidney Herbert's committee on the sanitary state of the army, and in 1859 he became deputy inspector-general in charge of the new statistical branch of the army medical department, a post which he held for fourteen years.

Urban A. Woodbury

He was educated in the public schools of Morristown and Morrisville, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1859, but his career as a doctor was short-lived due to the advent of the Civil War.

William McCauley

After leaving Michigan, McCauely was a student in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.