The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-10-06
and care and nursing ready and walt.

ing.
The pharmaceutical side Of thes,
military hospitals is an auxiliary ma
chine, working in perfect harmony
with tho whoio. Like the field ser
vice, 1t is indlsputably responsible fol
all the medical and surgical supplies
and issues them upon requisition OF
the doctors and surgeons. Besides
this the department. is responsible 70,
all sterilizsd milk, washing OF band
ages and rerolling, disinfection of bed
ding, and the making of chemical
tests of urine.
Every hospital throughout Japan
and every base and field hospital in
Manchur!a has it's ARCHAEOLOGICAL lab
oratOry.
Too much cannot be said in en-.
thusiasti5 commen6atlon Of this side
of the service. Undoubtedly the pains
taking reSeai cacs have been the means
Of saving thOu!au uds Of lives by fore.
sta'lirg pCsslul epldemics, and say.
ing individual by prompt determi
nation Of tbe trouble. No man suf-
ferS from temperature but whose blood
goes under the microscope. Malaria is
malaria, and typhoid Is typhoid In the
Japanese army. Diseases arc not
guessed at, as they were in Cuba, the
Philippines and South Africa, where
often for full week the physicians
attempted to diagno3e cases by sleight
Of hand and trick OF eye.
The limits OF this paper do not
admit Of more than the mcrest refor.
ence to tho splendid system OF santa.
tlon follo"ed ia the field Suffice 1t to
say that during the campaign extend.
Ing over a year and q half, with from
800, 600 to 600, 600 soldiers undergoing
The sevcrest hardships and privations
or active service, there are in the
Japanese army 36 men out of every
100 who have never reported at sick
call; SO men who never saw the inside
OF hospital or were sick In quarters,
a record absolutely unparalleled. The
var has taught many lessons and de-
Stroyed many ideals in matters mill
tary, as In matters surgical. In surgi
cal technique, or In the after treat.
mant OF the wounded and sick, the
Japanese have taught the foreigner
comparatively little, but in the field
of sanitary science and dietctics they
have demons rated, what has never
been done before, that preventable
diseases are preventable.
They have pres rvsd their armies
Tor tho legitimate p, rp ses for which
armies are enlisted Tic killing or con.
querlng OF an open enemy In the field
Instead OF having four titths of It's
mortality Victims to the silent foe.
1t is against this dreadful scourge,
this needless sacrifice, that the japan.
csc have made their hardest flght and
won their most signal victories
tories that viii rebound moro to their
credit tnan even the expulsion of the
Muscoyite aggressor.
a dispatch reoaiTed in LsnsS
September 81 from the Tokyo CORES
pondent OF the London Standard, CIV.
ing the statistics OF tho war to tnat
date, reports:
KILLED, 46, 1SC; died Of wounds,
lO,97O; died from sickness, 10, ,3OO.'
This percentage OF death to sickness
was less than one fourth OF the total
dead, which is record not parallcled
In the annals OF war.
When contemplating these mar
Velous figures, with what o CHASTITY
and melancholy smile the hero or
Manila must recall his action In con-
soring the cablegram OF the chief sur
geon who had requested SO additional
m dcal oficers and 200 more nurses
when the hospital wards were over
crowded, because such dispatch
would prove the falsity OF his claim
that he had the situation we'll In
haLd Months afterwards the sur
gcons and nurses were provided, but
not until the horrible condition was
intensified, and taps had sounded the
requiem for many poor boy who had
joined the great majority.
Perhaps the same delight may So
lace the cJntemplative commander In
the Cuban campaign, when he recalls
his famous order at Tampa, directing
the unloading Of ship filed with
medical and hospital supplies for San
tiago, and the substitution OF a. load
Of mules instead.
or or another major general dur
Ing that war, who on being waited
upon 10y certain medical Gil GERS with
protest against the use Of certain
"a.er said, la response to their Com
plaint When | want your advice, |
VII send for you; unoi | do, you can
attend to your own business
Or even If the then secretary Of
war, who, when inspecting the camps
at MonCauk Poinu with the president
" Gho United States, said on looking
at glass OF water furnished tho
troops OF this infected camp, and
winch certain medical men had pro-
nounccd to contain germs OF disease:
Why, 1t looks all right to mo-
UnGil the line aud staff onlcers OF
the American army IS taught Ghe
necessity OF sanitation, and the medi-
Cal llj9cc Is giyon rank and authority
10 enforce Il, our madcal department.
must remain humiliating failure.
lts continuance under present condi
GiouS i3 no less than an evidence OF
national lmbecility."
Battle with n Shark.
The New York American says five
fishermen on Long Island Sound were
chased Wednesday by big shark,
which viciously attacked their boats
and gave them desperate BATTLE Ours
were used lneffectivcly to beat Off tho
rayenous fish. The fight took place al
most opposite Captains Island Light.
| house. The men heard commotion In
the water aud saw long body with
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