First Surgeon General of the United States. Woodworth graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1862 and served as an army surgeon during the Civil War. He became Medical Director of the Army of the Tennessee under Gen. William T. Sherman and headed the ambulance train on Sherman's "March to the Sea".
In 1871, Dr. Woodward was appointed Supervising Surgeon (a post later designated Surgeon General) of the Marine Hospital Service. Woodworth reorganized the service on a military model, introduced uniforms for its doctors, and broadened its interests and responsibilities to include federal quarantine authority. From these beginnings under Dr. Woodworth, the commissioned officer corps was formally established in 1889 and added responsibilities in the area of public health finally resulted in the service being renamed the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912. Dr. Woodworth is recognized as the first Surgeon General of the United States. He authorized the first "Weekly Abstracts of Consular Sanitary Reports", forerunner of "Public Health Reports", the official journal of the Public Health Service. Woodworth designed the seal of the Marine Hospital Service around an anchor and caduceus. With minor changes, this seal is now used by the Public Health Service.
In 1871, Dr. Woodward was appointed Supervising Surgeon (a post later designated Surgeon General) of the Marine Hospital Service. Woodworth reorganized the service on a military model, introduced uniforms for its doctors, and broadened its interests and responsibilities to include federal quarantine authority. From these beginnings under Dr. Woodworth, the commissioned officer corps was formally established in 1889 and added responsibilities in the area of public health finally resulted in the service being renamed the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912. Dr. Woodworth is recognized as the first Surgeon General of the United States. He authorized the first "Weekly Abstracts of Consular Sanitary Reports", forerunner of "Public Health Reports", the official journal of the Public Health Service. Woodworth designed the seal of the Marine Hospital Service around an anchor and caduceus. With minor changes, this seal is now used by the Public Health Service.
First Surgeon General of the United States. Woodworth graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1862 and served as an army surgeon during the Civil War. He became Medical Director of the Army of the Tennessee under Gen. William T. Sherman and headed the ambulance train on Sherman's "March to the Sea".
In 1871, Dr. Woodward was appointed Supervising Surgeon (a post later designated Surgeon General) of the Marine Hospital Service. Woodworth reorganized the service on a military model, introduced uniforms for its doctors, and broadened its interests and responsibilities to include federal quarantine authority. From these beginnings under Dr. Woodworth, the commissioned officer corps was formally established in 1889 and added responsibilities in the area of public health finally resulted in the service being renamed the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912. Dr. Woodworth is recognized as the first Surgeon General of the United States. He authorized the first "Weekly Abstracts of Consular Sanitary Reports", forerunner of "Public Health Reports", the official journal of the Public Health Service. Woodworth designed the seal of the Marine Hospital Service around an anchor and caduceus. With minor changes, this seal is now used by the Public Health Service.
In 1871, Dr. Woodward was appointed Supervising Surgeon (a post later designated Surgeon General) of the Marine Hospital Service. Woodworth reorganized the service on a military model, introduced uniforms for its doctors, and broadened its interests and responsibilities to include federal quarantine authority. From these beginnings under Dr. Woodworth, the commissioned officer corps was formally established in 1889 and added responsibilities in the area of public health finally resulted in the service being renamed the U. S. Public Health Service in 1912. Dr. Woodworth is recognized as the first Surgeon General of the United States. He authorized the first "Weekly Abstracts of Consular Sanitary Reports", forerunner of "Public Health Reports", the official journal of the Public Health Service. Woodworth designed the seal of the Marine Hospital Service around an anchor and caduceus. With minor changes, this seal is now used by the Public Health Service.
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