Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-19
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stoncwnlI Jaskson's Medical Direc-
tor tn Go I'm Service Again.


tor to Go i'm Service Again.
a special from the White Sulphur
Springs to the Washington Star Of yes
terdaY says:
DR.. Hunter Mcclure, the famous sur
geon OF Richmond, Va. who was during
the civil war medical director Of Stone
wall Jackson's Corps, has accepted po-
stion on the stan OF MaJor-General F1tz-
hugh Lee and will accompany that Gene
raj TO the front, or wherever else the lat
ter may be ordered. as soon as he re-
covers from a temporary Illness with
which he is now suffering.
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 py
Mrs. u. S. Grant.
Asked as to his views on various mat
tiers growing out of the war between the
United States and Spain, Or. Mcclure re-
piled as follows:
''The changes I'm military surgery since
the close of the war between the States
are very great. and a man who was con-
sidered skilful and proficient in his pro-
fession in that war, if he has not kept
up his studies, will have to learn every
thing over again nowadays.
I'VE had anaesthetics in the days OF
1861 to 1865. but knew nothing of antisep-
tics, which in these times are so i'm
portant and essential to the saving Of
life.
1.-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 skilful;
now with magazine gun he can shoot
twenty or thirty times as often. The
missile itself is very different; the steel
jacketed bullet from a Krupp-Jorgensen
gun goes through a wall one brick thick
at / 200 yards, or equal TO through the
bodies of seven men in line at that dis
lance.
Doctors will not as easily find a safe
place during the modern battle as they
did in the olden time. There will be a
necessity for a larger number of assis-
tant surgeons because there Will be the
danger of more deaths from hemorrhages
on the battlefield possibly nurses as
well as assistant surgeons should be
taught how to arrest hemorrhage.
Had we known anything about anti
septics when Stonewall Jackson was
wounded his life might have been saved
Clean antiseptic surgery can be prac-
tlCed on tne iHOutlH DdAtlt-htlui anu IL
will make an immense difference in the
mortality.
Il think the war Will be brief one,
unless some other nation comes in, and,
if so, il 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 prolong the war by refusing
to agree to it's 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 of peace IT Is dlfhcult
to see. They are brave, arrogant. tena-
ciour people, and may give us trouble
even after being thoroughly and honestly
whipped.
Il think the Government ought TO an
mex Hawaii, hold on to the Philippine
Islands, and, If it ever becomes neces-
sary, have an alliance with England. /
am convinced that we have got to have
that alliance before long.
France thoroughly despises us, and
will soon Join with the other Latin ma
lions against u.s. 1t will then be a ques-
ton of whether the Slavs and the Latlhs
shall govern 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
civilization of that day, and brought
about for hundreds of years, what we
know now as the Dark Ages. The same
thing threatens again.