![]() ![]() Epidemic typhus, plague, malaria, cholera, typhoid fever, hepatitis, tetanus, and smallpox have nearly constantly accompanied wars, frequently deeply conditioning the outcome of battles/wars more than weapons and military strategy. ![]() This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).The environmental conditions generated by war and characterized by poverty, undernutrition, stress, difficult access to safe water and food as well as lack of environmental and personal hygiene favor the spread of many infectious diseases. (May 31, 1912) (read in his speech at the Army Medical School). Captain Hoff died there on Augand is buried on the Arlington National Cemetery. Later he served in California and New York before joining the Army Medical Examination Board in Philadelphia 1874. When Alaska was added to the United States as the Department of Alaska, under the jurisdiction of the army, Hoff was assigned as Medical Director. He received a commission as an Assistant Surgeon, ranking Captain, in 1867. Later lifeĪlexander Hoff, wanting to remain in the regular army, took an examination before the army medical board and scored fourth. Colonel and Colonel of Volunteers for faithful and meritorious services during the war and was mustered out during summer 1865. When the war ended Major Hoff received the brevets of Lt. Barnes, the first American purpose-built hospital ship. There he planned the medical details for the new ocean steamer J.K. In 1864 he went to New York City as he was elevated to Medical Director of Transportation for the East Coast. He also was responsible for widely banning mercury from the operating tables. Sanitary Commission or another chartered ship. January, the first hospital ship owned and operated by the government instead of the U.S. During his time he modified and supervized the D.A. In the west he was made Superintendent of Medical Transportation on the Mississippi River under Gen. He became Brigade Surgeon on Augand was transferred to the command of Maj. He participated in the Battle of Big Bethel, where a lamp was shot out of his hands, and others in the Eastern Theater. Army and was assigned as Surgeon, with the rank of Major, to the 3rd New York Infantry Regiment. When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, Hoff volunteered for the U.S. Henry and Ann had another daughter, Harriet L. In 1870 she married Lieutenant, later Colonel, Edward Hunter while both were in California. Two years after the birth of John, in 1850, their daughter Caroline Clay Hoff was born. He founded the Army Hospital Corps in 1898, served as Deputy Surgeon General, returned for service during World War I and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for service at Wounded Knee. Their son, John van Rensselaer Hoff, was born in 1848. Hoff married Ann Eliza van Rensselaer, member of a prominent political family, shortly after his move. He also became an examining surgeon at the recruiting station at Albany and served as Surgeon-General of New York from 1852 to 1854. He moved to New York State as a private physician during the late 1840s or early 1850s. ![]() He received his medical degree in 1843 from the local Jefferson Medical College and, despite leaning towards a career as army physician, joined the Blockley Hospital. He planned the medical details of the first American purpose-built hospital ship and was the first army surgeon in Alaska.Īlexander Hoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Decemas son of Caroline Clay Hoff and Rev. Medical Director of Transportation, East CoastĪlexander Henry Hoff (Decem– August 19, 1876) was an American physician and military surgeon during the American Civil War.Superintendent of Medical Transportation, Mississippi River. ![]()
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