...cases developed by the experiences of the war with Mexico, if employed in other than the direction of non-combatants, would probably have made them national figures in the military history of the United States . Some of the names on this medical roll of honor from the regular army are those of Finley, Hammond, Barnes, Crane, Murray, Moore, Sutherland, Baxter, Sternberg, and Forwood, all of them surgeons...