Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-12
BROKEN GERMAN
SOLDIERS BEING
MENDED RAPIDLY
Latest Scientific Methods Are.
Used at "krankenhauS, f"
Hospital for Wounded IN
Suburb Of City of Hamburg,

Hamburg. April 2S.--Gcrman is
patching UP and mending up her
broken soldiers with remarkable
speed at the new "Krankenhaus" in
RarmbecS, suburb Of Hamburg
This great hospital, which covers sew
eral acres of ground, was completed
early last fall at q cost Of many mill
Hons of marks, and has a capacity of
1000 beds. Nine hundred of them
now contain soldiers.
The most interesting part of the
hospital is the orthopaedic institute,
where the soldiers are being massaged
and bathcd and exercised back into
usefulness, either on the battlefield or
in private life A heretofore unhcard
OF percentage does get back the use
Of paralyzed limbs aud damaged func-
tons.
When the bullet. shrapnel or shell
woundthat put the soldier out of bus
mess has healed, II leaves him disa
bled In almost as great o variety of
ways as there are wounds, and fire.
auently with greatly impaired ability
TO walk or run, or to use his hands.
arms and fingers,
Baths Are First
According 10 the nature of his dis
ability therefore he s first given a
series OF baths--mud, sand, hot air.
hot water, acid light. and electricity.
He lies for hours in a bathtuh of rich,
black, hot mud, or he sits in queer
looking receptacles while hot sand
pours down onto him and makes his
nerves tipgle
rIe Is lowered on chair by means
of a pulley into water as hot as any
On ST a MI mi a %
der the soothing influence he Is able
TO move limbs that before we're Inn
mobile. He sits with an arm in an
acid bath or with electricity coursing
through his system until gradually he
Becomes more supple
Then he moves into room filled
with fantastic Instruments. each de-
signed TO give play to some particular
muscles. IL II is a leg that has gone
ont of commission he mounts ma
chine not unlike bicycle and pedals
for hours until At last he has won
back the use OF his limb
breathing " Assisted
II q bullet has lessened the sol
dier's ability to breathe, he & sus-
pended by strays under his arms. and
slowly drawn upward by a sort Of
hoist which facilitates his inhalations
lie learns how 70 crook his knee. twist |
his wrist, raise his arm and turn his
head.
So prominent a part does the use
OF the vacuum play that there Is a !
vacuum room" where the GONZALES |
cents sit. enc with a vacuum ON part |
Of his arm. pulling up the flesh about |
q wound, others With the machines on
their backs, theirs legs, on almost ev-
cry part Of their anatomy.
There are countless patients with
arms or legs that have stiffened in
pecnliar ways. one finds them also
together In q big room. with odd |
loeking mechanical contrivances
strapped 70 arms or legs-contriv 1
ahees that can be frightened SO as 10 !
bend the Srm fraction Of a cent? |
meter more az time until Joints have |
been eoaxed back into the habit of l
moving
AS the patient lies on a bed with 4
wounded knee that must he raised a
wooden continuance with screws, IN
der his leg, performs the duty with
vl't The usual pain OF such an opera |
Ton or, . pulley arrangement on