New Bulletin

So concise and lively is the Army's new medical monthly that Army doctors brag about it to their civilian colleagues. The magazine's full title is The Bulletin of the U.S. Army Medical Department. It replaces the ponderous, quarterly Army Medical Bulletin. Unlike the old Bulletin, it carries articles on veterinary medicine and dentistry.

The change is a result of the war--the Medical Department wanted to spread the latest medical news (except secret material) among its personnel as quickly as possible. The man chosen for the job (which began with the October issue) was pink-faced, silver-haired Lieut. Colonel Johnson Francis Hammond, who retired from the army in ill health in 1920, was recalled in 1942. He spent the interim as news editor and assistant editor of the A.M.A. Journal.

His Bulletin is a little larger than pocket-size, starts with news and comment (e.g., new uses for penicillin, announcement of a new plastic hospital tray or a course in dentistry, statistics on war dogs, report of an epidemic from ham, a note on horses' eyes). It goes on to special articles on standard procedures (e.g., a series on malaria) and original articles from army doctors everywhere. The brisk little Bulletin sells for $2 a year.

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