"He who would become a surgeon should join the army and follow it," said Hippocrates. In Victories of Army Medicine (Lippincott; $3), published last week, Colonel Edgar Erskine Hume shows that surgery has been only one great branch of U.S. Army healing. His book is the first general history of U.S. Army Medicine.
Catalogue of Credit. The colonel's pride in his branch of the service is huge and unabashed. His catalogue of credits to Army doctors may seem to leave little for other medical men:
> Walter Reed's work on yellow fever is well known....
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