White-haired, hale & healthy Major General Norman T. Kirk, since June head of the Army's huge (90,000 officers, 450,000 enlisted men) Medical Corps, last fortnight told Manhattan newspapermen that the U.S. Army is haler & healthier than any army has ever been in any war. Some of his specific points on Medical Corps problems, solved and unsolved:
> Malaria is still the No. 1 worry. Though quinine is low, there is plenty of the synthetic substitute, atabrine. But if a man is bitten by the wrong kind of mosquito he will probably...
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