The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-09-28
REMARKABLE NEW
CURE FOR BURNS

Wounded In the War. Is Perman
eni Value TO Medicine and Mankind
Last March The Outlook published
"Some War Impressions Of an Ameri
can Woman" The article was made
up Of extracts from letters WRITER
home by young New England
woman who volunteered for hospita
work among the soldiers Of the Allies
in France. In the current issue Of
The Outlook second series Of letter:
from this woman worker appears. Be
low we quote a 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 describ-
ed 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
Or. Barthe de Sandfort, Hospital st.
Nicholas, Issy-le- e-Moulineaux, Pres de
Paris. The extract from the letter
here follows:
Hotel du Commerce ct de l'Epee,
Vannes, Morbihan, May 8, 1916.
| have been TO a hospital mot here,
but in 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 a miracle that it
Is hard to write collectedly about 1t,
and | know you will accuse me in any
case Of exaggeration until you see
the photographs | 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 a vivid imagination. | did until
I went myself.
II is a small annex of an immense
hospital where burns and frozen hands
and feet are treated, and there | saw
IL men (there we're morel 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 OIL.
Don't think | went out of curiosity
Heaven forbid, | went to see this
marvellous cure and to try to interest
others in it. And ! went knowing that
II 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 person with whom have talked
has come away marveling
| hardly know where to begin.
We went first to see the dressing
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
feet or hands? Do you
know what things of horror they can
become Do you know what the odor
Of eangrene is? And do you know
that almost always the foot or hand,
IL not the whole limb, must be ampu-
tated? Then you will know something +,
Of the wonder when | tell you that Of
all the dozens and dozens sent to this
surgeon only one had to have his legs
and of the others only a
few lost their toes, and these because
they had been first treated in other {
ways at other hospitals, and time had
been lost before they reached his. We I
Jaw the dressing being done. 1t took (
yreat courage to look. Ordinary {
wounds are nothing to these. But not {
, man flinched or cried out, because t
lot one suffered any pain! And that c
Vas why could stand it, r
One man talked TO me in English. t
ic had been waiter in a New York S
,otcl. He talked calmly and smilingly | i
while his dreadful feet were being @
,ainted with white, waxy liquid. 5
This is the wonder Of which ] am TO h
ell you later.) Another lay on a $
tYctcher rolling a bandage unconcern- 7
dly while they dressed his stumrs. o
Does il hurt ?"I asked, "Not at all, Il
e replied; but before | reached here Il
- There were others and others, a
II with the same sort Of hands and n
ect-aIl cheerful and interested in n
heir own eases, all witnessing to the 7
act that they felt no pain, all fast q
d
And then we came TO the burning o.
= cases. One doctor told me that it O,
as considered the most terrible form HI
{ suffering. fear sou could not
tand il II / should describe them in
ctail. When caught sight Of the e
rst ~ them | could not believe that u