The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-02-10

GeWn to the new hospital In the old
machine shop, so that in case Of neces
sity his wounded could be readily put
on the cars and taken north.
Since he came out to Manchuria In
June 1880 patients have passed
through DR.. Butts hands. OF this
number sixty We're suffering from
wounds In the head affecting the brain.
Trepanning has been necessary In ev-
cry case OF shell wound, but bullet
wounds which extend quite through
the brain often heal without much
trouble. Shimose shell wounds are the
worst to handle, as the fragments Of
the shell mangle and tear In a frightful
fashion.
Every available foot OF space In the
Doctors hospital Is covered with
wounded. There are not enough cots TO
go around, and beds are made up on the
floor so close together that there are
only narrow pathways for the doctors
and nurses to- walk in. On visit to
the hospital the other day j found five
japanese wounded being cared for.
One was shot through the head, but
the doctor had removed a piece of the
skull and taken out the splinters and
otherwise operated on the wound SO
that 1t was healing nicely, and the pa
tient was sitting up In his bed, smoking
cigarettes and smiling. Two other Jap
anese, one OF whom had been shot
twice through the lungs and another
who had been bored through the intes-
tines by a bullet and stabbed a half
dozen times by bayonets In the desper-
ate fight for the fourteen guns captur-
ed by the Russians on the little hill to
the left of the railroad, were both con-
valescent.
The little Japanese We're as well
cared for as the Russian prisoners and
looked quite contented. The doctor and
a Red Cross nurse meantime were busy
for more than half an hour giving soup
to another poor little boy Japanese
whose wound in the head had pro-
duced lock jaw and who could just bare
ly open his mouth wide enough to take
a little of the soup that the nurse was
feeding to him.
Sorry, awfully sorry" said the doc
tor when he Joined US again. I've done
everything I could for that boy, but
I'm afraid I'm going to lose him. He's
n good boy, brave, patient little sou.
Oh, war, war, warl It's horrible, horri-
blev
I watched the doctor that afternoon
as he undid some more of the wanton
14 "a 4x.1fa al nfn 80 HAY
brought in TO us man. or, at least, IL
was what was left of man. A shi.
NOSE shell had almost done for him,
and there didn't seem to be anything
but a tattered, bloody bundle left.
MANS the same as dead" whispered
an assistant TO me. Nobody would
touch him but DIR. Butz."
DR.. Butz did touch him. He worked
and worked and cut and sawed and
sewed up. 1t seemed to me that he
took the man apart and laid the pieces
out on the table and tinlkered up each
one and then put them all back. know
| was terribly alarmed when the op.
Grafton was about over for fear q
stomach or one of the lungs or heart
or something had fallen off the table
and been overlooked and the man
would get well and go through life
minus one of these things.
never doubted but that the man
would get well. / know he was horri.
bly, mangled. But / know DIR. Buta
too. have the same confidence In him
that every poor tortured wounded man
carried into his hospital has from the
moment the doctor first lays his hands
on him. I feel as much confidence In
the doctor as does Cossack officer
who told me that he was going to tie
a card around his neck saying that II
ever he got blown into infinitesimal
fragments by shimose shell please
to sweep up the pieces into cigar box
and mail to DIR. Butz and that two
weeks after he got out of the hospital
and returned to his regiment he would