Merritte W. Ireland

Title: Merritte W. Ireland
Description: Portrait of American surgeon Merritte Weber Ireland.
Contributor: From the painting by Mathilde M. Leisenring
Creator: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Format: 30.5 xx 22.5 cm
Publisher: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories
Source: Great American Surgeons series, Ethicon Suture Laboratories, No. 22 in the series, Great American Surgeons
Subject: Ireland, Merrite Weber 1867–1952.
Type: reproduction
Birth Date: 1867
Death Date: 1952
Occupation: Surgeon.
Biographical Text: Military surgeon and organizer. Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army (1891); Captain, Assistant Surgeon (1896); Major, Surgeon U.S. Volunteers (1899-1901); Major, Medical Corps (1903); Lieutenant Colonel (1911); Colonel (1917); Brigadier General, U. S. Army (1918-1931). Chief Surgeon, American Expeditionary Forces, France, World War I. Founder of the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Awarded American Distinguished Service Medal; Commander of the Legion of Honor of France; Companion of the Order of the Bath of Great Britain; Grand Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta. President, American College of Surgeon (1929-1930).
Tag: American surgeons.; 19th-century surgeons.