The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-08
Russian Surgeons Skill De-
cribed by R. H. Little
SHOT In THE BRAIN HEALED
Wonderful Cure Effected by DR.. Richard
Butz in the Case of Russian Sol
dier Shot Through the
Heart.

After having been out at the front
Tor two weeks watching the Japanese
shoot holes through our Russians it
was very interesting while resting in
Mukden to watch how the holes were
plugged up. says Richard II. Little the
Manchurian correspondent Of the Chi
cago News.
DR.. Richard Butt Is the hero Of this
narratiye-that is. if it is proper to call
man who has not waded through
fields Of slaughter a hero He Is one
Of the great stumbling blocks that lie
! In the Japanese path to victory. They
bit man In vital spot and BY all the
laws Of war and medical science the
man should be dead and another name
added to the sum total Of the victims
Of Japanese prowess. Instead Of that,
Dr. Butt receives the man into his
hospital, finds the bullet and throws it
away, patches up the works, and the
man gets well and goes back to the
firing line.
Or. Butz has cared for sixty-fve men
shot In the brain. The modern high
velocity small bore steel bullet gives
the skillful surgeon chance. OF these
sixty five men operated on by DIR. Butt
many had bullet wounds straight
| through the brain. These were easy to
treat. But others mad severe fractures.
caused by fragments Of shell smashing
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pieces into the brain. The bullets from
the shrapneI shells also make bad
wounds. They are of slow velocity
and instead Of whistling clean through
a man when they hit, soaring with their
| intense neat the edges Of the wound,
they break and fracture where they
enter and lodge in the body Yet Of
these sixty -fve difficult cases Or. Butt
has lost only FIVE.
| | was down at the hospital the other
day and took picture Of man whom
the Japanese had killed in as pains
taking and thorough manner as any
body can kill man and still have
some regard for the Geneva convention.
They had drilled rifle bullet straight
| through bis heart The Russian burial
party took the word Of the Japanese
for It, They digged the grave and put
| up wooden cross at the head of it,
and the priest came and granted abso-
luton and went away, and the burial
party sat down and waited for the
man who was shot through the heart
to quit smoking cigarettes and fold his
pale hands over bis breast. The dy-
ing soldier smoked cigarettes until the
burial party had none left, and then
| they carried him into a house, so they
could get some tea and catch a few
hours Of sleep while the man who was
shot through the heart could die when
he got good and ready
That night-tnls was on the fourth
day Of the battle of the Sha Rlyer-~the
Japanese opened shell fire OH the
town. and oil the wounded were hur-
rsadly gathered up and carted off to
Mnkden. Along with the rest went the
man who was shot through the heart,
never thinking to tell the litter bearers
that 1t was all mistake and that his
grave had been fixed and the wooden
i cross put up and that he was expected
/ back. Arriving at Mukden. the wound
/ Ell were sorted out and all who could
+ be classified as desperate eases were
taken over ta DR. Butts hospital.
| AS Desperate case the man who
was shot through the heart stood at the