The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Dr. Pietro Chutro, an Argentinean civilian, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States, during World War I. At his clinic in Paris, Doctor Chutro devoted himself unreservedly to teaching American medical officers the principles of the lessons learned through experience by the French and British surgeons in the first years of the war, with the result that the knowledge so imparted assisted in a great measure to conserve the life and limb of thousands of American and allied wounded.