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JHaurtrc C Jturuffs By A. M. Shipley, M. D., Baltimore, Md. C4 pa R. MAURICE C. PINCOFFS was born in Chicago on August 6, 1886. His father, Maurice H. Pincoffs, was Dutch from Rotterdam and came across irf the seventies. His mother was born in Chicago, and her father came from Belgium. His mother ' s father and brother were both physicians and two generations before that. His uncle was Dr. Henrotin, who was a gynecologist of note. He was interested in Post Grad- uate Medical Education, upon which he wrote a book — The Democracy of Education in Medicine — and was one of the founders of the Chicago Polyclinic, and after his death the new hospital erected by the Polyclinic was called The Hen- rotin Memorial Hospital. A great uncle of Dr. PincofT ' s on his father ' s side was a physician in Holland in the middle of the last century, and volunteered in the British Service for the Crimea, and his wife went out with Florence Nightingale, th got home safely, although the doctor was wounded. The wife lived to be very old, and died only about fifteen years ago in Florence. It can, therefore, be seen that the subject of this sketch comes of a cultured and adventurous race. y As a boy. Dr. Pincoffs went to both private and public schools in Chicago, and from his thirteenth to his sixteenth year was on the conti- nent, chiefly in the city of Antwerp, in Belgium, and in France. He began his collegiate woi ' k at the University of Chicago in 1903. After two years he took up some of the medical courses along with his college work. From the beginning of his college work in Chicago to his graduation in medi- cine, nine years elapsed. The last tw ' o years of these nine were spent at the Hopkins in the third and fourth years in the Medical School. He received his Bachelor ' s Degree at Chicago, served one year as Assistant in Anatomy, did special work in chemistry and pathology, and completed the first two years in medicine. Out of these seven years, however, he spent a total of two years in the far West. Much of this two years was spent as a Peripatetic philosopher. He spent a part of two winters in Stetson University in Florida, as a part of his collegiate work at the Uni- versity of Chicago. He graduated in medicine in 1912, and during his senior year was a substitute interne for some time at Bellevue, New York. In 1912-13 he was medical interne at the Presbyterian Hospital in Chi- cago. This sei ' vice was a very active one and was in charge of Drs. Billings, Herrick and Sippy. During 1913-14, he was Assistant Resident in the City Hospitals at Bay View, and the following year, 1914-15. was Medical Resident. These two years were spent in the service of Dr. Thomas R. Boggs. During 1915-16, he was associated in the practice Seven
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of Internal Medicine with Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, and spent about one- hahf of this time in research work in pharmacology under the supervision of Dr. Abel. When war was declared between the United States and Germany in April, 1917, Dr. Pincoffs was in the Reserve Medical Corps and was called for recruiting duty. He volunteered for immediate service abroad and was sent across in May, 1917, for duty with the British. He was attached to the 7th Field Ambulance of the Third British Division and had charge of the stretcher bearers in the evacuation of the wounded from the battalion aide posts to the head of the motor transport. This, of course, was front line work. He continued in this work until November, 1917. He saw the end of the battle of Arras, was through the Third Ypres, and on the edge of the battle of Cambrai. He was then detached from the British, assigned to the American Red Cross, and put in charge of a hospital for civilians at Neufchateau. This hospital afterwards be- came Headquarters of the Medical Consultants of the American E.xpedi- tionary Forces. It was built, organized and equipped by Dr. Pincoffs with the help of Mr. Pleasants Pennington. He remained there until the middle of April, 1918, when he was sent to the Second Division and be- came Battalion M. 0. for the Third Battalion, 9th Infantry. From this time to the end of the war he was continuously with this Division, and as the Second Division saw a very active service and was only rivalled by the First Division in guns captured, number of casualties, and ground gained, it can be seen that, in the words of O ' Henry, Dr. Pincoffs saw the elephant and heard the owl. Soon after he joined the Second Di- vision it went into a comparatively quiet sector between Verdun and the St. Mihiel. They were pulled out from here and were on their way to Cantigney to relieve the First Division when the Germans started their advance on Paris, May 28th, 1918. This was ' the famous Second Division that went forward from Meaux along the Paris road and took up line of battle on the edge of Belleau wood early in June. The Division re- mained in the front line for nearly a month until early in July, they were taken out and had about two weeks ' rest. They then went in again along with the First Division just south of Soissons, July 18th, and pulled off the famous flanking movement that turned the tide against the Germans and robbed them of the offensive. This is spoken of in history as the Aisne-Marne Offensive or the Second Battle of the Marne. There were eleven officers and eight hundred and fifty men in Dr. Pincoft ' s Battalion at the beginning of the attack. At the end of two days, there were left two officers and three hundred men. The Division advanced about six miles and cut the main Soissons road. They went ba ck for replacements and new equipment, and were sent to the neighborhood of Nancy, in which sector the First American Army was being organized. At this time, Dr. Pincoffs was detached from the 9th Infantry and was attached to Ambu- lance Company No. 15. He submitted a new plan to the Division Surgeon, • ■- • ■ . ■ ... Ekjht ■■,-v
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