Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-14
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence


ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
Budapest, Nov 10-To ease thos
upon whom the horrors of war ar
first visited the Austro- Hungarian
empire is exerting every effort. To
day the correspondent of The AS
ISOLATED Press visited two of tn
principal military hospitals of Buda
pest and found that everything need
ed to make the wounded comforta bh
and insure their recovery and physica
well-being had been done. Whateve
the advance in surgery and medicin
has taught is being applied in thes
large establishments, one of whici
cares for over 1000 and the other TO
over 1900 wounded.
The inspection of the two hospitals
was made under the auspices of DR.
Stefan Barczy, lord mayor of Buda
pest. Later the. correspondent visit
ed the American Red Cross hospital
an establishment able to house abou
200 wounded and just now caring fol
about 1856. A number of the wounded
who had arrived from the Galiciar
front had been brought there.
In the operating room of thu
American Red Cross hospital a Rus
sian soldier lay on the operation table
The man groaned. DIR. Charles Mac
Donald of the United States arm.
stood at the head of the table and {
nurse was patting the cheek of tn
Russian with a gloved hand. On TIN
floor near the foot of the table wer'
stains of fresh blood.
Elsewhere about the room stoot
four other American nurses and al
Austrian orderly-all of them sad
faced, all of them expectant. Th'
man on the table was about to die.
He is a Russian soldier who wal
brought here just now explained DR.
Macdonald. mo hope-both fee
frozen-amputated- gangrene; look!
Under the. sheet had been hidden 1
truly terrible sight. The left leg o
the unfortunate had been tourniquetet
above the knee. the right below thu
knee. Some Austro- Hungarian sur
geon at the front had amputated botf
feet, the left at the ankle; the right 6
little above.
The man had comparatively sligh
bullet wound in the f1eshy part of th'
back, and, as DIR. Macdonald said
would have recovered easily had ht
been given attention. But he had beer
left behind by his. own and when tn,
Austrians found him his lower limb:
had been frozen.
MY children, my children" moanee
the man, whose marvellous resistance
against dissolution stood in strangt
contrast to the .pallor Of face ane
waste of body. a.,
You will see them again" said thu
nurse, gently. -
Very interesting case" said Dr
Macdonald. Sorry his vitality is Sc
low. He has but a few seconds. how
ever.
For a moment the groans of the
man grew louder. His eyes roamee
from one to another in mute but elo-
auent appeals for help-and the end
sudden, merciful.
poor fellow" said the Austrian or
DERBY. as he wheeled the body from
the room.
But there is a brighter side even T.
military hospitals. In other wards OF
the American Red Cross hospital ths
patients seemed happy enough. Most
of them we're eating their evening
meal and many had progressed ss
rapidly that another portion OF TINS
or that was needed to appease theii
hunger. Elsewhere men were sitting
on their beds, playing cards or read
ing newspapers, and about the corri-
doris strolled eonvalescents.
Budapest's military hospitals are
said to be marvels in hygiene ano
surgical efficiency One of them Il
under the management of DR.. Jules
Dollinger, professor OF surgery %
worldwide reputation. Inc eslap'
lishment was equipped and is pelns
maintained at the expense OF the cils
of Budapest and its premises are ths
plant of a large factory which was III
tended to manufacture electric MIXTURES
for the municipality.
The second hospital was equipped
and the expenses of maintenance arr
being met, by the bankers OF hungary
and for this reason 1t is populari5
known as the Bankers Hospital.
over 100000 kronen (Sl2o.ooo) Was
spent in equipping the building, which
oddly enough, was also intended TO os
utilized for the manufacture or eiee'
trio appliances. DR.. Wilhelm Man
ninger. who is we'll known In the
United States, and was prominen'
figure of the International Medlca
Convention in New York last Marei
is the head of the establishment. &c
well organized is the hospital tha'
within 80 seconds of his arrival MAJ
can he placed under surgical care.