The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-29
WAR SURGEONS NEED
AN X-RAY MACHINE
Girl Writes Mrs. Arthur Train
Much Suffering Could
BE Avoided.
PART OF MONEY RAISED

Mrs. Arthur Train has received a
letter from an American girl living in
Tours, who is now serving as a nurse In
the M%arnontiers Hospital.
The writer makes an appeal for the
balance OF $1,000 needed to purchase
an N-ray machine So that wounded
soldiers may be examined at the field
hospital without being removed to Tours.
OF the amount needed s7S2 has been col
lected. Subscriptions to make up the
balance may be sen to J. u. Morgan
& CO., or Arthur Train.
The letter follows
LA CHANrERTE,
"Sr. CyR-suR-LoIRE U.-et-L),
April ~, 1915.
! have no doubt you are
actively interested, as all American
women seem to he. in sending us help
for our poor wounded. | am work.
ing in a large hospital at Marmontiers.
do you remember the convent at the
foot OF dear old Rougcmont that We
motored out to see when o were
here? Well. II IL now a hospital at
tached to the Societe de Secours aux
Blesses tCroix Rouge Francais). We
have $50 beds for badly wounded and
several annexes for convalescents. My
role IL the operating room. and a sad
Job IL is. | can assure you, to see all
those young lives ruined and wrecked
and manned. even when we can save
the life, which. hank goodness, We
have been able TO do in 81 per cent. out
OF over a thousand men who have
gone through our hands.
Help NEEDED.
II am writing now to ask YOU "
YOU cannot help us in our work. ]
know o all In America are doins
sucn a lot, giving so generously 10 thr
great general fund. hut that goes 10
buy necessary material. which is sem
10 Paris and distributed smong Thou
sands o. hospitals. wrote there ana
asked FOR help and they sent me a fine
box OF chloroform, hut out OF lo'
pounds Of absorbent cotton asked FOR
I got sixty pounds. and no lint. They
can't do everything and give 10 every
body Gut that IL not my request.
what we cryingly need is an N-ray
plant. As q know. We are seNeiaI
miles from Tours and our poor. weary
men have TO he sent in old ambulances
and shaken over the cobbles all tnat
way and back 20 he N-rayed. We nave
had some ritiful cases, n where a
OF ls arrived almost dying. He
suffered martyrdom his screams could
lie heard down by the river the con-
,inual hemorrhaccs made US him the
kidney was touched. but we could not
operate OIL sheer speculation. lie was
much too AJAX to stand the )olting
trip to Tours. so for days ne suitereu
while we pumped sea water into Nun
by the quart daily TO get his strength
up TO stand the trip, j.,
His youth came to his rescue and
made him bear the strain that would
have killed an Older man. The kid
ney was literally torn to pieces; we had
to remove IL entirely. II was a hand
to hand aght with death for days, but
we pulled him through, and he is now
in the convalescent house AZ CHEEKY as
can he and AS fat and pink as could
be wished.
could Have Ended Suffering.
But he went through days and days
OF suffering that could have been
avoided had We been able To X-ray at
once. There were other cases not so
fortunate. where the poor bcggars could
not be moved and had 20 return to their
Maker when We might perhaps have
been able to "a them;
II thought that. perhaps, for old
Rousemont days, YOU might be willing
to make n small collection among YOUR
own people and friends for this par
ticular hospital and help us In our
fight against death. The plant will
cost between 5000 francs and 1000
francs. I know Il seems a lot of money.
but the cause IL more than worthy.
II had several small amounts sent
me for Christmas and at other times
to help and ! have provided quite "A
few men In that way with artificial
legs instead OF the wooden stump that
the Government gives and which would
have prevented them from continuing
c~allincs or trades. \ laborer. for
instance, could not till the soil with a
stump that sank into the ploughed earth
at each step. whereas the club foot
that he now has will allow him to
work.