Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-02
AMERICAN TELLS OF DAY SPENT IN AGUA
 PRIETA HOSPITAL
Fred A. Mckinney Says lie Was Surprised at the Surgery and Medical Attention Received By Wounded.
(By Fred MeKinney.7

ready and that very little regard OF consideration is shown the wounded. at least those who fight in the ranks By that mean that while every cans ia taken Co save the .ives ol ,he wounded, still they a-o not IeaJ lcd with the consideration aa- Co nos have the nursing that the would re- caise in private hospital That has aiways been the opinion until a few days ago. when l had cause change it had always though. .uat army surgeons did the best they could 0u, fiat as a general thing the facuite1 H Hero inadequate and that many men o'ei ot their wounds who in time ol peace with proper care @ould have ! ed.
 | changed my belief after spending day in tho military hospital of the c-ustiCltional army at Asua Prieta ~aich is in charge of Dr. J. l. Ioi- ] gsworth, chief surgeon Of the aouth- c5tern division of the army | saw . t.e doctor perform a couple of opera us and ! s8w the wounds oi l8 oI 2 men dressed hy the doctor and hia 3,auts. uas greatly impressed t.h the care and attention given
 c-e uen, and v0cla not expect q. a-5 tho patc-ts il a private rc-ri.s
 alel with more consideration.
 one oi the operations performed by ..o doctor was thc aia- --a--oa O. a ls, above Che knee The u3u na wounded iu a recent battle, tdo bullet l.ssing through the ca,- of Che Iee
 rcriug the artery. The result was tat there was no circulation below . t.e knee Gaa.rene casuej end a- operation was necessary t1 save .hc 4Han'5 l.fa The doctor aid every thing .u bis power Go save Che limb. Dat as it turned out there was nc chance General Gales agrees with Ir. HolliuEsWorJh that cutting ia tC [. res0rted Go only whesc 2, ia aDsc l.teiy necessary. The general say that there are enough deaths and enough criDpies among his brave boy without causing any more uuneces sariiy This is the fifteenth amputa ton above the knee made by Dr. H0l rngsworth in the last few months. bu every one Of them was necessary. My cpiniol from what ! have seen is Chat there would have been twice that number if the chief was like most mil Iary surgeons.
 Tn the case that ! saw, it is probable tlat many surgeons would have made tle ampuJatiou as soon as the man vas brought into the hospital, as there vas slight chance that t.e .ims coul. be saved But the doctor took thC chance and used every means iu hi. power to save the young soldier iron being a cripple though his effort were unsuccessful at last. Whereve; there is a possible chance Co save p lab and prevent making 9 cripple O the man. that chance is taken ana cutting is deferred as long as pos sible
 ] Under General Gales orders that no expense Is Co be spared in the hos pital department plenty of competent help is employed and every aid and appliance that will add to the com fort of the wounded a'nd that will give aid in the recovery from their wounds is at the command of the doctor There are al present time 34 wounded in the hospital includiue six Maytore ] ui5tas, picked up on the field at Ana rscachi There are more than half as many nurses and orderlles as there are patients, besides Dr. Hollings worth and Delbert Perry. the pharma. cist who is in charge Of the dispen gary
 In the hospital the private in the ranks receives the same considera. tion as the officer Each wounded man receives the very bes, attention and care that the doctor and his as- sistant can give, no matter what his rank may be- high or low General Gales says that nothing IS too good for his "muchachos," and Major Block his chief Of staff, makes frequent wis it's to the hospital to see now his men are getting aolg and if they want anything The Maytorena wounded are treated just exactly the same as their own wounded and handled just about as tenderly Magazine wltcrs in the East who speak of "barbarous Mexico, please note.
 Perry told me of one Maytoreua sol- dier wounded at AaaVacachi Pass a low weeks ago whom he picked up on tha Geld lifted to the back of a horse and packed half a miie OF SO Go an ambulance. This man was severly wounded in the hand anc ue ;oId per ry afterward that his own captain had refused to let his "compaheros" pick him up and take him along when they retreated saying that he would C.e anyway and it was no use to burden themselves with him. But Perry ! brought him in and under the care given him in the hospital he soon rel covered lie was given permission to return Go Maytorena's amy but re- fused and enlisted iu Che constitution alist army under General Caves
 | saw couple of soldiers who were wounded in November at Naco by the same shrapnel shell ana v-.o nave been In the hospital ever since Both were wounded n tho feet and arg