Modern Italian Surgery And Old Universities of Italy

ibyan War, and was recognized in 1915 under special rules (Servizio di Guerra). .Gen. Francesco Testi, who was director of the Military Sanitary School in Florence, and the author of an excellent book on microbiology1 wrote an article (January, 1917) in which he described from the beginning the wonderful display of national energy in answer to the urgent appeal of the country for an adequate provision in the immediate emergency. A great many new factors contributed to the development of the Sanitary Service?principally, the revolution in the method of warfare establishing trench organization with slow advancement, the vastness of the front which necessitated a large distribution of ready means of medical help and advanced hospitals, the rapid formation of a large army, the threatening epidemics and the increasing rapport between the war zone and the nation. 1Microbiologia Pura ed Applicata, con spec!ale riguardo alia Tecnica Micro- biologia, per Student! e Medici, 1911. Under these conditions, so different from those experienced in any previous war, the Sanitary Organization had to find its way amid new problems and new difficulties. But the unanimous and harmonious will of the men who realized the supreme necessity of a prompt and steady cooperation, greatly helped to overcome the enormous needs which confronted the authorities day by day, anxious of maintaining intact the spirit of the regular army corps, by disciplining the new recruits into the regula...