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Seaman (LOUIS LIVINGSTON an American)

LOUIS LIVINGSTON, an American surgeon, born at Newburgh, N. Y., in 1851. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1876, and from the University Medical College, New York, in 1877. He engaged in hospital work in the latter city, and in 1886 made a tour around the world. He served as surgeon of the First Regiment of the United States Volunteer Engineers, in the Spanish-American War, and during the Russo-Japanese War, was with the Japanese Army my in Manchuria. At the outbreak of the World War he served in the hospitals of the Belgian Army.

He made a special study of the sanitary arrangement of armies, and was considered an authority on that subject. He wrote "The Crucifixion of Belgium"; "Military Preparedness," and many articles on medical and military subjects.