The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-16
VARIOUS BATHS ID
 RESTORE SOLDIERS
LARGE PER CENTAGE OF THE GERMANS ARE PATCHED UP
 FOR MORE WAR
Detail of the Injuries Shows That Hos Pital Treatments In Long War Is Most Important Part Of Military.

Hamburg, May 15.- Germany is patching up and mendng her broken soldiers with remarkable speed at the new "krankenhaus" in Barmbeck. a suburb of Hamburg. This great hos pital, which covers several acres Of ground, was completed early last fall al q cost of many millions of marks. and has capacity Of 2,O0O beds Nine hundred Cf them now contain soldiers.
 The nest interesting part of the hospital IS the orthopedic institute. whc.e the soldiers are being mas saged, and bathed, and exercised back 10 usefulness, either on the battlefield or in private life A heretofore un- heard of per centage does get bacl, the use of paralysed limbs and dam aged functions
 When the bullet shrapnel or shell wound that put the soldier out of bus mess has healed. it leaves him dis ab.ed in almost as great variety of ways as there are wounds, and ire quently with greatly impaired ability to walk or run, or 10 use his dands arms or fingers.
 According to the nature of his dis ability therefore, he IS first given q series of baths mud sand hot air. hot water acid, light, and electricity He lies for hours in bathtub of rich black, hot mud, or he sits in queer looking receptacles while hot sand pours down onto him and makes his nerves jingle
 He is lowered on a chair by means of a pulley into water as hot as any man can stand and after a time, un der the soothing, softening influence he Is able to move limbs that before were immobie. He sits with an arm in an acid bath or with electricity coursing through his system unu gradually he becomes more supple.
 Then he moves into a room filled with fantastic instruments, each de. signed to give play to some particu- lar muscles. If it is a leg that has gone out of commission he mounts q machine not unlike bicycle and pedals for hours until at last he has won back the use of his limb
 If bullet has lessened the soldiers ability to breathe, he is suspended by straps under his arms, and slowly upward by a sort of hoist which fas ciitates his inhalations. He learns how to crook his knee, twist his wrist, raise his arm and turn his head
 So prominent a part does the use Of the vacum play that there is Iva cum room where the convalescents sit, one with a vacum on part of his arm pulling up the flesh about wound, others with the machines one their backs, their legs, on almost ev cry part of their anatomy
 There are countless patients with peculiar ways One finds them, al so together, in a big room, with odd looking mechanical contriyances fas tened with straps to arms or legs contrivances that can be frightened sc as to bend the arm fraction of Centimeter more al time until joints have been coaxed back into the habi' of moving.
 As the patient lies on bed with wounded knee that must be raised, a wooden contrivauce with screws, un der his leg, performs the duty with out the usual pain of such an opera ton, or pulley arrangement on the wall behind him lifts his arm and turns it in an arc.
 So frequent are the operations at the Barmbeck hospital that the huge operating room is served by a double window connecting with the ami sceptic chamber. Instruments arc passed out one window, cleaned and passed back through the other wher another patient may be ready
 A group of a dozen correspon ients many of them men who had frequent Iy been at the font, had been under fire and who had had an opportunity to see some of the horrors of the bat tlefield, recently visited Barmbeck To a man they agreed that the pa tients in the hospital, with their twisted and distorted limbs, wearing their queer contrivances for restoring the use of their limbs, were infinitely more sorrow-provoking than the dead soldiers on the battlefield
 But the most terrible of al was a soldier who had nothing the matter with hi slimhs at all--but had ilIu sons that he mad been terribly wound ed and who dragged himself around on crutches, his face terribly distort cd by the pain he imagined he felt from the bullets that never had