The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-18
TIED STATES E IN HOSPITAL NOW USED IN FRANC
;ntion of Surgeons
iring the Days of
dian Fight ing Solves
rious Problem in
Dy HENRY ROOD,

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ny HENRY ROOD.
ANY strange things and curl
Gus have come from the
welter of war in Europe. OF
them all. none is stranger
= than the fact that into
rea Of carnage recently has
Introduced a military hospital
$ Europe never saw before in
'usands Of years Of warfare. a
e hospital composed of tents
transported over long distances.
trected. consisting OF Offices, sup
partments. operating quarters.
Kitchens. accommodations for
ms. nurses and other attend
with complete equipment of sur
Instruments, medicines, and all
lat could he needed, even down
ant for generating light and an
nent Of pins.
I word. the Allies now possess a
lie field hospital invented by the
States army in the old days
ian fighting In the West and
ped to Its present efficiency dur
arly a century of hard expert
~ Uncle Sans military sur
arge Is this hospital so extern
area. that 1t appears to be an
encampment in itself, as may be
Y one of the photographs here
eproduced, which. like all OF the
photographs illustrating this ar
IRE the first to reach this coun-
l matter of fact, however, the
mes of canvas represent nothing
is one portable hospital. the only
yer sent to a foreign country by
nited States. 1t Is now set up
/ use at a point in the western
Q OF war not far from the fight
re Of what is called German
'ry" in the region of the Nosges.
hospital represents still further
pirit of humanitarianism which
Americans to do SO
to relieve suffering. to care for
ounded. to mitigate the horrors
, present war. for II was pur-
| outright from the Quartermas-
of the United States
by three brothers residing In
'ork, who prefer to remain anon
8 donors. They paid $4,000 for
! shipped 1t to Europe several
ago. Now it is being used to
for wounded men of all the
has been the Of this
lie hospital in the few weeks
experimental use abroad that II
4. unlikely to be duplicated by
copies made after it's plans;
iose who are in position to know
.tuation say that the necessity
lch adJuncts to the fighting
daily grows more and more
Therefore 1t is probable
the end OF this summer
may be in s n number of
hospitals of the American type,
capable Of accommodating one
ed. two hundred or three hun
men.
lnge indeed Is It that Indian war
In the great desert regions of
wn Southwest, in the Businesses
e Rockies and the Sierras two
zee generations ago should have
ped a wholly new idea in mill
science which now is of mo
Importance to the Old World.
portable hospital is being used
injection with the work Of the
can Ambulance Hospital, which
base near Paris. an advanced
.al at Jouilly and an ambulance
e manned by volunteer students
merican colleges consisting of
than a hundred motor ambu-
!. American surgeons and
8 have been detailed to take
9 OF II, and a section OF fifteen
ambulances is now attached to
order to understand the impera-
iced for such an adjunct to the
~ establishments of Europe it
be remembered that heretofore
! wars military hospitals have
established in large buildings
as churches. schools, monas-
and public halls of towns
y scattered all over Europe. But
errifc engines OF destruction
In the present conflict for the
time in history have RACED
less buildings of the kinds men,
J. Back and forth has swept
lie Of battle. engulfng not merely
but cathedrals, libraries. mu-
and other large structures.
of these which were used as
tails a few weeks or a few
rs ago are now but heaps Of
and there is no cessation OF
nnihilating force.
} day. not so long ago. the three
ers already alluded to we're talk
'ver conditions in Europe-the
rs where fighting has taken place,
they knew we'll. The thought oc-
q to them that before long the
ngs used as field hospitals up TO
lime would be obliterated. And
what would happen to the thou
OF wounded men? Where could
be carried? Where could sur
be stationed to operate on them:
} could nurses care for them?
idea Of handling thousands of
.ed patients In the open air was
the question. AT intervals rain
fall in torrents; clouds of dust
sweep cross hillside and over
later would come freezing
and deep SHOWS.
three brothers sat back In their
3 and looked at each other as
new horror of Errope's war re-
d itself to them. 1t was bad
IN to read Of the dead and
ed and shattered now being
from the trenches every day,
nus far there have been hospitals
2 the victims could be cared for.
what would happen in n few