The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-16
AUSTRIA IS CARING
FOR THE WOUNDED IN.
EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.
Hospitals in Budapest Are
Models of Hygiene and
Modern Surgery
PATHETIC DEATH OF
RUSSIAN SOLDIER
Had His Feet Frozen After Being
Wounded-Associated Press Cor
respondent Is Shown Oyer
Two Big Hospitals

Budapest, November 24-(Corres-
pondence of the Associated Press. ITO
case those upon whom the horrors of
war are first visited the Austro Hum
garian. empire Is exerting every ef-
fort. Today the correspondent of the
Associated. Press visited two of the
principal military hospitals of Buda-
pest and found that everything need
ed to make the wounded comfortable
and insure their recovery and phys
fca1 well-being had been done. What
ever the advance in surgery and med
1cfne has taught is being applied in
these large establishments, one of
which cares for over 100 and the other
for over 1900 wounded.
The inspection of the two hospitals
was made under the auspices of DR..
Stefan Barely, lord mayor of Buda-
pest. Later the correspondent visited
the American Red Cross hospital, an
establishment able to house about 200
wounded and just now caring for about
1856. A number of the wounded who
had arrived from the Galician front
had been brought there.
A Pathetic Incident
In the operating room of the Amer
lean Red Cross hospital a Russian SOL
der lay on the operation table. The
man groaned. DR.. Charles Macdonald
of the United States army stood at
the head of the table and nurse was
patting the cheek of the Russian with
a gloved hand On the floor near the
foot of the table were stains of fresh
blood.
Elsewhere about the room stood four
other American nurses and an Austrian
orderly-all of them sad-faced, all of
them expectant. The man on the table
was about to die.
"He is a Russian soldier who was
brought here just now" explained DR..
Macdonald. mo hope-both feet
amputated-gangrene; look!''
Under the sheet had been hidden a
truly terrible sight The left leg of the
unfortunate had been tourniqueted
above the knee; the right below the
knee. Some Austro- Hungarian surgeon
at the front had amputated both feet,
the left at the ankle; the right little
above.
The man had comparatively slight
bullet wound in the fleshy part of the
back, and, as DIR. MacDanold said,
would have recovered easily had he
been given attention. But he had been
left behind by his own and when the
Austrians found him his lower limbs
had been frozen.
MY children, my children" moaned
the man, whose marvellous resistance
against dissolution stood in strange
contrast to the pallor of face and waste
of body.
"You will see them again." said the
nurse, gently.
VERY interesting case" said DR.. Mac
Donald. Sorry his vitality Is so low
He has but a few seconds, however"
For moment the groans of the man
grew louder. His eyes roamed from
one to another in mute but eloquent
appeals for help-and the end-sud-
den, merciful
poor fellow" said the Austrian or
derby, as he wheeled the body from the
room.
But there is brighter side even
to military hospitals. In other wards
of the American Red Cross hospital the
patients seemed happy enough. Most
of them were eating their evening
meal and many had progressed SO rap
idly that another portion OF this or
that was needed to appease their hun
ger Elsewhere men were sitting on
their beds, playing cards or reading
newspapers, and about the corridors
strolIed convalescents
Dudapest's military hospitals are said
to be marvels in hygiene and surgical
efficiency. One of them is under the
management of DIR. Jules Dollinger.
professor of surgery of worldwide rep
utation. The establishment was
equipped and is being maintained at
the expense of the city of Budapest
and its premises ARE the plant of a
large factory. which was intended to
manufacture electric fixtures for the
municipality.
The second hospital was equipped,
and the expenses of maintenance are
being met by the bankers of Hungary
and for this reason 1t Is popularity
known as the Bankers Hospital"
over 100000 kronen ($120.000) was
spent in equipping the building. which.
oddly enough, was also intended to be
utilized for the manufacture of cleo
trio appliances. Dr. Wilhelm Mannin-
ger, who is we'll known in the United
States, and was a prominent figure
of the international medical conven-
ton in New York last March, is the
head of the establishment. So well
organized is the hospital that within
80 seconds of his arrival a man can be
placed under surgical care