The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-08
THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR Is IS
BOTH TERRIBLE AND HUMANE
one Vast Battlefield and One Vast Genet arv
1lues Filled With Nursing Homes for Victims If
Holocaust of Mars. N'inS OF

Ill u L.4d 7 GCh-
lig sun prevailed, OF the splendid
llIllons that obeyed the mobiiization
q iaSt August only a few hundreds
l thousands of human scarecrove
."lsted and bent by hardship an.
ieepleo by disease, or manned bythe
x s knife, would crawl hack Ia
lheir ruined homes after the war w.
over. val "dS
How is it done?
HOW do the worlds armies ranape
70 conaDlne deadly Effectiveness IN
slauShterin the enemy and saving eff
tec.i'ehesS IN preserving the health Of
thelr own men, both the we'll and the
Only by clothing the army
with almost dictatorial DOW
ers. lie controls the destinies of the
soldier from the m of en,is,
ment to the day of discharge-or nf
ourlal In a soldiers unmarked grave
Picking the Recruits.
Ever one remembers the angry
Brltlsher who was refused enlistment
shortly after the war began because
ms teeth were in need of repair. and
wrote TO the papers that h didn't
want to bite the enemy-he wanted To
shoot him" England has beeen ex-
tremely careful in picking recruits.
Ihey must be absolutely sound men.
Here the army surgeons word is su-
III 10 IN way Oh nclDin0
preserve the health Of the fighting
force-to let none get to the front
who are WeaklingS. Once enlisted.
the soldier in Britain's armies. and
IN every other army involved, is un-
der the army surgeons control. The
recruit must be conditioned. War is
hard work, harde than any labor.
harder than any sport. Men must
train physically for war as they would
for a c~ross-country run. Therefore,
the doctor prescribes and supervises
their exercise in the preliminary
period of training before they leave
for the front. Also the recruit is vac
cinated against both smallpox and
typhoid fever. Typhoid was one of
the old scourSes of the soldier.
Thank to anti-typhoid incubation,
the disease is growing rare in the
modern army.
The army surgeon is consulted
about the soldiers clothing, his shoes
especially. A medical board Of ex-
perts works out the ration, and in the
field the regimental surgeon keeps an
eye on the men and their food at
mealt1me, to make sure that the Ta-
ton is we'll cooked and lastly sea-
SOned. Even the amount of water that
it is best for the men to drink at
stated intervals on the march is work
ed out by the medical staff, and under
their supervision filters n steriliZine
appliances are provided and constant
ly used for purifying tainted or Sus-
pected water supplies. The doctors
df an army lay down the sanitary
regulations for it's irst-aid dressing
is greater than one might imagine
Most of the troubles hat follow
wound hat does not Immediately Kill
are due to infection. There is Away:
danger Of blood poisoning, and if sol
from the ground gets into tn
wound, Of the deadly lockjaw. There.
fore, the fate of the mar
often depends upon the manner il
which the first-aid dressing is ap
piled.
The Field Ambulance.
' Field ambulances are placed at tn
: outset of a battle at sheltered point
along the firing line. Nurses and sur
. geons wait here to apply emergenc.
5 dressings. Wounded soldiers drai
themselves, or if they cannot wall
are carried on filters or crossed rlIles
to these ambulance stations. Her
Y their wounds are dressed roughly an
! they are passed on to the hosplta
= tents at the rear. The more serlouSi
, wounded are borne in filters or sen
in ambulances, light motor cars be
; ing used largely for this purpose. A
soon as his wounds will permit, TN
e injured soldier is sent from the hos
8 pital camp to one of the permaneT
0 hospitals in some city held by nj
own army. Thence he is sent hom'
D either in a hospital ship, or on a hos
q pital train. France is we'll equippe
with these hospital trains, Each tai
\ is capable of accommodating i
wounded. with a berth for each Iher
are % cars to the train, Of which 81
= are hospital cars. There is an opei
q ating room, a pharmacy, a supp
6 ROOM. a kitchen, a dining room an
a pantrv. each taking up a car. Inc
n there are additional cars for II
3 slightly wounded or conVaiescent' an
\ for the and nurses III chars
russia. has similar trains, caiie
Nv hite trains" and supplied by IT
great Russian mobiles.
ENGLAND France and Germany al
dotted with new hospitals, erected c
Il short notice by the army medlcal al
y thorities for the reception Of wounde
ona IF the finest and most modern
these hospitals is at Cambridge, Ems