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:''This article is about the senior physician in the United States Navy. For the head of the United States Public Health Service, see Surgeon General of the United States. For other uses, see Surgeon General (disambiguation).'' The Surgeon General of the United States Navy is the most senior commissioned officer of the Medical Corps of the United States Navy. The Surgeon General of the Navy is a member of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. ==Establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery== (詳細はUnited States Congress passed a Navy appropriation bill that was a blueprint for efficiency. The legislation provided for five Navy bureaus United States Navy bureau system to replace the outdated Board of Navy Commissioners—Yards and Docks; Construction, Equipment, and Repair; Provisions and Clothing; Ordnance and Hydrography; and Medicine and Surgery. Heading each of the bureaus was a “Chief” to be appointed by the President of the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.med.navy.mil/bumed/Pages/Default.aspx#BUMEDAbout )〕 The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) became the central administrative headquarters for the Navy Medical Department, and those names became interchangeable. The general order of 26 November 1842, which defined the duties of the new bureaus, charged BUMED with:〔 * All medicines and medical stores of every description, used in the treatment of the sick, the diseased and the wounded; * All boxes, vials, and other vessels containing the same; * All clothing, beds, and bedding for the sick; * All surgical instruments of every kind; * The management of hospitals, so far as the patients therein are concerned; * All appliances of every sort, used in surgical and medical practice; * All contracts, accounts, and returns, relating to these and such other subjects as shall hereafter be assigned to this bureau. Overseeing all of these duties, and directing the medical department, was the Chief of BUMED, William P. C. Barton. Barton served at this post until 1844. He was followed by Thomas Harris, William Whelan, Phineas Horwitz, and William Maxwell Wood. Since the days of Barton’s directorship the most senior ranking physician in the Navy Medical Department has held the title of Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Surgeon General of the United States Navy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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