The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1905-03-30
I'M A MUKDEN HOSPITAL
Russian Surgeons Skill De-
scribed by Richard H. Little.
MEN SHOT IN THE BRAIN HEALED

MEN SHOT IN THE BRAIN HEALED
Wonderful Cure Effected by DIR.
| Richard Butz In the Case of a Rus
sian soldier Shot Through the
Heart-Wounded' Japanese Kindly
Treated-CossaciS officers Faith In
the Doctors Ability.
After having been out at the front
for 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 H. Little the
Manchurian correspondent of the Chi
cago News.
DR.. Richard Butz is the hero Of this
narratiVe-that is, if it is proper to call
| a man who has not waded through
fields of slaughter a hero. lie is one
of the great stumbling blocks that lie
in the Japanese path to victory. They
hit man in a 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.. Butz 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
DR.. Butt has cared for si..ty-fiye men
shot i'll the brain. The modern high
velocity small bore steel bullet gives
| the skillful surgeon Il chance OF these
sixty-fve men operated on by DR.. Eutz
many had bullet wounds STRAIGHT
through the brain. These were easy tn
treat. But others mad severe fractures
caused by fragments OF shell smashing
the bones of the skull and driving
pieces into the brain. Tile bullets from
>the shrapnel Shells also make bad
wounds. They are of slow velocity
and Instead of whistling clean through
man when they hit. soaring with their
intense heat the edges of the wound.
they break and fracture where they
enter and lodge IN the body. Yet of
! these sixty-five difficult cases DR. But2
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 a manner as any
body can kill man and still have
/ some regard for the Geneva convention.
! They had drilled rife bullet straight
through his heQrt. The Russian burial
! party took the word of the Japanese
for it. They dirged 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 hears:
! to quit smoking cigarettes and fold bis
/ pale hands over his breast. The dy
I ing soldier smoked cigarettes until The
burial party had none left, and then
!! they carried him into house, 50 theT
/ could get some tea and eaten a few
hours of sleep while the man who was
/ shot through the heart could die whel
! be got good and ready.
That light-thiS was on the fourth
day Of tie battle of the Sha River-the
| Japanese opened shell fire on the
town, and all the wounded We're hur.
riedly gathered up and carted off to
Mukden. Along with the rest went the
man who was shot through the heart.
never thinking to tell the litter bearers
that it was all q mistake and that his
grave had been fixed and the wooden
back. Arriving at Mukden, the wound.
ed were sorted out, and all who could
be classified as desperate cases. were
taken over to DIR. BUTTS hospital.
| AS a desperate case the man who
was shot through the heart stood at the
very top of the list. The young sur.
| geOn who did the sorting out didn't
know whether the man would live long
enough to be put into the ambulance,
but when he saw the patient had a
hole through his heart he said, This
will tickle old Butt to death; it's Just
his kind" So he sent the man along.
He was carried very carefully into the
/ saw the man with bullet hole
through his heart two weeks after the
shooting occurred. He was not in his
bed, and we had to hunt for him all
over the hospital and finally rounded
him up at the far end, where he was
foregathering with some of his regi-
ment who Were also convalescent.
He came back and sat for his picture
on condition that he would be permit
ted to put his uniform on in few days
more and go downtown. After l saw
this man | no longer wondered why
the japanese success was only momen-
tary. What's the use Of killing men
when DR.. Butt overhauls them and
patches them up and makes them good
as new?
Dr. Butt. when at home in ST. Peters.
burg. is at the head of the largest hos
pital in the Russian capital. He was
born in the Baltic provinces of Russia,
and German was his mother tongue
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