New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
The Nursing staff.

have almost omitted the nurses from this
article, because we have grown so used 70
LOYALTY and devotion in women that these
qualities in them do not constitute news. The
trained nurses of the Ambulance Hospital,
with half a dozen exceptions. are Americans,
with a long hospital experience at home. Dur
ng the early months they served with no re-
Enumeration. An allowance of 100 francs a
month has now been established. They re-
luctantly accepted this as each was anxious
70 continue on the purely voluntary basis.
There are also volunteer auxiliary nurses,
who serve as assistants TO the trained women.
The entire nursing staff has been efficient
and self-sacrfcing.
We entered the department where some Of
the most brilliant surgical work Of the war
has been done. II is devoted 20 those cases
where the face has been damaged. The cab
met is filled with photographs, the wall IS
lined with masks, revealing the injury when
the wounded man entered, and then the steps
in the restoration of the face 10 its original
structure and look There in front Of me
were the reproductions of the injury; the
chin shot away, the cheeks in shreds, the
mouth a yawning aperture. holes where once
was a nose all the CHASTITY pranks Of shell
fire tearing away the structure, wiping out
the human look. Masks were there on the
wall of man after man who would have gone
back into life a monster. thing for children
10 run from. but brought back inside the
human race, restored 20 the semblance Of
peasant father, the face again the recorder
Of kindly expression. The surgeon and the
dental expert work together on these cases
The success belongs equally 70 each Of the
two men. Between them they make a restora-
q.
A Surgeon Pioneer
The work Of these hundreds Of Americans
at Neuily was summed for me In the per
son Of one dental surgeon, who SAT a few
feet from those forty masks and those six
hundred photographs, working at a plaster
cast of a shattered jaw. He was very much
Americana and loose jonted, with
twang and a drawl, wondering why the blazes
writing person was bothering a man az
work. II was his time of. after six days Of
patient fitting of part 20 part, and that for
year. So he was taking his day of to trans
form one more soldier from a raw pulp TO
human being There were no motor car
dashes and no military medals for him. Only
hard work on suffering men.
There he sat at his pioneer work in a
realm unplumbed by the mind Of man. 1T
called on deeper centres Of adventure than
any Jungle exploration or battle exploit. II
was science at its proper business OF saliva
ton Those Krupp howitzers we're not to
have their own way. after all. Here he was,
wping out all the foul indignities which Ger
man scientists had schemed in their labora-
tories
Two days later ! saw the boys Of the
American Ambulance unload the wounded Or
Verdun from the famous American train.
The announcement Of the trains approach
was simple enough these words scrubbed in
pencil by the French authorities, "l2 Musul-
man, 2ll blesses 8 officers 1 malade Train
American de Revigny."
Those twelve "Musulmsn" are worth psus-
lag with for a moment They are Mahom-