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Fort Sam hospital renamed in honor of military physician
On this day in 1942, the station hospital at Fort Sam Houston in San
Antonio was designated Brooke General Hospital, in recognition of Gen.
Roger Brooke. Brooke entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1901 and
became a specialist in infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. He
served as commanding officer of the hospital at Fort Sam from 1928 to
1933. He died in 1940. The hospital's roots go back to 1870, when the
Post of San Antonio was established on the Texas frontier; at that time
the medical facility was a small dispensary in a log cabin. The first
permanent hospital was built in 1886, and the current structure in
1936-37. Brooke General Hospital was expanded in 1946 to become Brooke
Army Medical Center and was at one time responsible for all of the
medical training in the army. Today, activities at Brooke cover almost
every aspect of health care, postgraduate medical education, medical
training, and medical research.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BROOKE, ROGER
- BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
- FORT SAM HOUSTON
- SAN ANTONIO, TX
- MILITARY MEDICINE
- HEALTH AND MEDICINE
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