Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-10-20
REMARKABLE CURE FOR BURNS
The Discovery of French Surgeon Has Prevented I'm
told Pain and Disagreement Among Those Wounded
in the War

Last March The Outlook published
Some War Impressions of an Ameri-
can Woman. The article was made
up of extracts from letters written
home by young New England
woman who volunteered for hospital
work among the soldiers of the allies
in France. In the current issue of
The Outlook second series of letters
from this woman worker appears. Be
low we quote passage in one of them
which treats of remarkable new
method of handling frost-bite and
burns, the invention of modest
French surgeon. The cure is described
with an air of authority and verify.
For the benefit of those who may be
moved to assist the inventor and help
him to bring his treatment into wider
use, The Outlook gives his name as
DIR. Barthe de Sandfort, Hospital st.
Nicholas, 1ssy-le- Moulineaux, Pres de
Paris. The extract from the letter
here follows:
Hotel du Commerce ct de 'Epce,
Vannes, Morbihan, May 9, 1916.
have been to hospital (not here,
but i'll Paris, before my return here)
where | saw the most wonderful cures
wrought on suffering men that | have
ever seen in my life. Indeed, the
whole thing is such miracle that it
Is hard to write collectedly about it,
and | know you will accuse me in any
case of exaggeration until you sec
the photographs 1 am sending. They
don t lie! Unless you see them or the
men with your own eyes you think the
one who tells you must be drawing
upon vivid imagination. l did until
l went myself.
1t is a small annex of an immense
hospital where burns and frozen hands
and feet are treated, and there I saw
IL men (therc were more) who had
had burning tar played upon them by
the most recently perfected device of
their so-called civilized enemy. (The
allies won't use itD When they
reached the hospital the tar was still
burning, their clothes were burned off
Don t think l went out of curiosity.
Heaven forbid! / went to see this
others in it. And l went knowing that
it would be intensely painful to wit
ness. Mr.. w. said yesterday-he went
to visit the hospital at my suggestion
that he considered it the greatest
discovery since chloroform, and every
other nerson with whom have tallsad
has come away marveling.
hardly know whore to booin
We wont fret to 600 tho Iross;po
done upon those whose feet and hands
had been frozen at Verdun, men who
had been lying on watch, immobile for
days, moving neither hands nor feet
for fear of being discovered by the
enemy, along part of the, lines where
trenches are impossible because of
swampy soil. Have you ever seen
San9,em1Su mus. rec. te OF nanasE 10 you
bocomee NJ ue, ~ m'r,pa NY ean
of ranaroro "a GAU1 no. '"e ouor
that aImost oIu,.,,s +ha e.. -
If not tbo whole l;,rh rn,'st w ", a 49,
tated? Then Won viii know somothipmn
of the wonder Whom toll vo, tIot ~
all the dozens and dozons son+ ~ +b;s
surgeon only one had n have b;s loas
animated and If Tho o+bors o1,l,, -
few lost their toes and tbeso b W3 CO q
thew had beop frst troatod in cha
WAYS at other bosnitaIs and limo bod
been lost before tbev reacbod his We
saw the DRESSING heipg dove T. FOOL,
great courage to look Ordinary
wounds are notbino to thoqe Rnt not
man fiinched or cried ont becanso
not one suffered anv naini And that
was why | could stand it.
One man talked to me in Englisb
He had been a waiter in = New Yorl,
hotel. He talked calmly md smiIinglv
while his dreadful feof. wero ho;n1
painted with n white vaxv Hand
(This is the wonder of v,,icb an n
tell Won later.) Another law on a
strctcher rolling bandace unconcern.