Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-06

following interesting letter to his pa
per from Tokio:-
Today l have been visiting the hos
pltals OF the capital, where the men
broke in the wars are being treated.
My experiences have impressed me
with the fact that the Japanese army
surgeons are demonstrating to the sat
isfaction of medical men sent here by
various nations to study their methods
OF dealing with the sick and wounded
that more men recover from wounds
when operations are not performed
than otherwise. On the wounded of
the armies in Japan now in the field,
the surgeons are making operation in
very few cases; il no case do they op-
crate until the second day, and then
only as matter of extreme urgency
In the main, the wounds of those shot
in the field are dressed antiseptically
by the surgeons at the front, and the
dressings are not removed until such
time as the soldiers are brought to a
hospital where there are perfect ar
rangements for the treatment of the
wounded. Even then there are few op-
erations. The wounds are batned with
al antiseptic washing, and then, as an
American army surgeon whom l met
at the Selijuj:, or Red Cross hospital
said, They let the Lord do the rest
and he is doing it." At both hospitals,
the Eiju Byoin, or military hospital
and the Sekijuji, or Red Cross hospital
| saw how successful was the Japan
csc method of treating the wounded
The high percentage of recoveries in
comparison with the records of other
armies in past campaigns convinces
one that this practice of deferring op-
Grafton, as adopted by the Japanese
military doctors, is accomplishing won
derful results. Both hospitals are sin
gle stored buildings. with long, mar
row wards, windows and rows of beds
on either side: the ventilation is excel
lently arranged, and everything is
spotlessly clean and sweet-smelling.
There are no bad odors.
Up to the beginning of July over a
thousand sick and wounded had been
received at these two hospitals-in a
previous letter | have told of the jim
rikisha professions from the railway
terminus through lines of silent peo-
pie to the hospitals. Now | can tell OF
what | saw inside; heretofore l had
been refused entry. OF the thousand
or Whereabouts who have been treated,
not man has died at either hospital
There were among the wounded at
least so men who had perforating
wounds in the chest going through the
pleural cavity, yet not case of pleu-
risy resulted. Some six cases of per-
forating wounds that passed through
the abdominal cavity and out of the
Lack were also treated, and though the
wounds were received not more than
five or six weeks ago, some of the men
are sitting up in bed; two are walking
about convalescent and complaining of
the delay in permitting them to return
TO the front. True, the worst cases
are probably not seen in the hospitals
Of Toxic. The men sent here, | under
stand. are selected from the cases
brought to the southern depots by the
hospital ships. But nevertheless the
results secured by the surgeons are
remarkable.
The wounds [ saw were nearly all
clear perforat;ons, and unlike some
Lullet wounds | have seen. the orifice
of exit was no larger than the orifice
of entrance. There was no suppura-
ton. | saw bullet taken from one
mans jaw. and the jacket was perfect.
The bullet had evidently been spent
when it struck the soldier, and had
been stopped when it struck the lower
Zone of the jaw. 1t differed little in
size from the bullet used by the Jap
anese. and was smooth. pointed, COM
pound metaljacketed ball. The doc
tor who accompanied me offered the
bullet to me- but the soldier was en-
4phatic in his objections, he wanted the
bullet as a souvenir, and l gave it to
him.
There were some remarkable cases.
One soldier with whom | spoke, with
the aid of an interpreter. had been
struck by bullet just Under the left
eye, where the orifice was plainly visl-
Bile, and the bullet had passed through
the sphenoid bone and perforated the
tissue, coming out below the scapula
of his right shoulder. His only suffer
ing was from slight paralysis of his
right arm. due to the fact that the bull
let had broken one of the nerve It's
sues. Yet, though not more than 40
DAYS had elapsed the soldier was able
TO tell of how he was shot at the bat
tie of Yalu, when charging with his
comrades on the Russian position at
Hoh-ma-tung. A more remarkable case
seen at the military hospital was that
cf a man who had received a bullet IN
the forehead, which had come out at
the back of his head, both orifices
being shown plainly. He not only lives.
but was sitting up in bed. able to tel
OF bis wound. He gives the credit for