Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-18
DIR. MCGUIRE WITH LEE.
StOnewaI JacksOn's Medical DirectO
Again in Service.

again In service.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va,
May 1S.-Dr. Hunter Mcclure, the famous
surgeon of Richmond. Va, who was during
the civil war medical director of Stonewall
Jackson's corps. has accepted a position on
the staff of Major General Fitzhugh Lee.
and will accompany that general to the
front or wherever else the latter may be
ordered as soon as he RECEIVERS from tenn
porary illness with which he is nov SUI
fering.
Dr. Mcclure is at present sojourning with
his family at the White Sulphur Springs,
where he was yesterday seen by a reporter
of The Star at his cottage, the same which
was at one time occupied by Mrs. L. S.
Grant.
growing out Of the war between the United
States and Spain DR.. Mcguire replied as
follows:
1.-The changes in military surgery since
the close of the war between the states are
very great, and a man who was considered
Skillful and proficient in his profession in
that war, If he has not kept up his studies
will have to learn everything over again
nowadays.
1--WE had anaesthetics in the days of 1861
to 1865, but knew nothing of antiseptics,
which in these times are important and
essential to the saving of life.
THE modern missile is entirely different
from what was used in the war between
the states; then soldier who could shoot
once minute was regarded as skillful:
now with a magazine gun he can shoot
twenty or thirty times as often. The mis-
sile itself is very different: the steel-jacket-
ed bullet from Krupp-Jorgensen gun goes
yards, or equal to through the bodies of
seven men in line at that distance.
Doctors will not as easily find a safe
place during the modern battle as they did
in the olden time. There will be necessi-
ty for larger number of assistant sur
geons, because there will be the danger of
more deaths from hemorrhageS on the bat
tlefield; possibly nurses as well as assistant
surgeons should be taught how to arrest
hemorrhage.
Had We known anything about anti
Septics when Stonewal jackson was
wounded his life might have been saved.
Clean antiseptic surgery can be practiced
on the modern battlefield, and it will make
an immense difference in the mortality.
II think the war will be a brief one I'M
less some other nation comes in, and, if so,
it will be almost interminable. But even
after We have taken Cuba and the other
Spanish possessions in the West Indies 1--WE
already have the Philippine Islands,, which
We will soon do, Spain will probably pro-
long the war by refusing to agree to its
termination, or she will have lost all her
colonial possessions and her armies and
fleets.
How, then, we can be able to make her
accept terms or peace 1t Is difficult to see.
They are a brave, arrogant, tenacious peo-
pie, and may give trouble even after
being thoroughly and honestly whipped.
Il think the government ought to annex
Hawaii. hold on to the Philippine Islands,
and, If 1t ever becomes necessary, have an
alliance with England I am convinced
that we have got to have that alliance be-
fore long.
France thoroughly despises US, and will
soon join with the other Latin nations
against us. 1t will then be a question of
whether the Slavs and the Latins shall gov
ern this country, or the Anglo-SaxOns
About the time of Christ there came
from the east a horde of people who over
ran Greece and Rome, destroyed the civili-
zation OF that day and brought about, for
hundreds of years, what we know now as
the dark ages. The same thing threatens
again"