Exhibit 041 · Foundation report
The Rockefeller Foundation: A Review of Its War Work, Public Health Activities, and Medical Education Projects in 1917
some advantages over machine guns
Writing of a Rockefeller-supported hospital ship for the Moro population of the Philippines, the Foundation's president says medical care has "some advantages over machine guns." A Foundation newsletter of 15 August 1916 called the ship's work "an entering wedge for permanent civilizing influences."
- Source
- Rockefeller Foundation (George E. Vincent, president)
- Date
- 1918
- Quoted from
- George E. Vincent, The Rockefeller Foundation: A Review for 1917 (1918), section "Medicine versus Machine Guns," pp. 31-32 (Brown n. 50)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/rockefellerfound00rock
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), p. 124; wording checked against Brown. Locators from Brown's notes 49–50 (p. 255): Vincent, Review for 1917, pp. 31–32; "Hospital Ship for the Sulu Archipelago," Rockefeller Foundation newsletter, 15 August 1916.