The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-31
MEDICAL ARMY BEING MOBOL|zED FOR WAR SERVICE

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simple method which never had been
the strength of the patient, an impnr-
tant factor for the assistance of his
recovery, is conserved
! When soldier is placed on Il
Stretcher at the battle line he is car
ried 10 waiting ambulance. The am
bulance. in turn. receiving the patient.
does not place him on one of its own
Stretchers, but gives Il stretcher tn the
men who have carried the man. If the
ambulance drives To hospital train,
which Is the general custom where the
railroad lines are intact almost To the
trenches, the train gives the ambulance
a stretcher. accepting at the same time
the man and the stretcher on which
he Is being carried. This system works
throughout the system of Transporter
tion, so that British soldier arriving
In London, perhaps on the same day
! he is wounded arrives on the same
stretcher that was at the battle front.
! 1t also is the aim of the commission
TO work out system of modern hos
pital trains, carrying wounded soldiers
as far from the battle front as possible.
out of the way of the operations and
to place where his recovery is most
likely. DELICATE operations cannot al
ways be conducted on these trains. but
1t Is possible To do certain things which
are important in saving mans life.
such as stopping the flow of blood
from broken artery. the amputation
of an arm or leg or the like.
To Learn Full Medical Resources.
When the commission obtains a full
list of medical officers throughout the
country they will be asked to supply
elaborate statistics on the medical re-
sources of the various states. hospitals
schools for the re-education of wound |
ed soldiers, and factories equipped |
To manufacture medical supplies. The
question of finding schools is one Of the
great considerations. Men who have
been blinded will be taught to become
Seif-suStaining at some new line of
work; men without arms will be in
structed in some line of endeayOr
which requires no arms each case will
be taken up and worked out in itself.
in general effort to reduce TO mini
mum the number of hopelessly crippled
men as the result of war.
Arrangements also are being made TO
effect standardization of medical
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certain types of medicines, surgical in
Struments, splints. bandages and SINH ,
lar things used In medical work will
De invited TO send samples to the COM
to be placed on exhibition I'm
From these will be de- {
velOped the best practical appliapces ,
ana the various companies will be in
formed on what will be the needs In I
time of war.
Medical Colleges Give Aid.
Almost all of the medical sunnIv
of the country, when c
he proposal first was being consid- (
'red, wrote to Washington expressing Q
Willingness TO cooperate in any Q
which seemed practical. Such 9
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system will not only effect n stand {
lrdization but will permit the commits J
hon. with full facts at hand, to regu- C
ate the supply in all lines, so that t
mere VIII not be surplus of stretch
rs surplus of a certain type of E
urgical apparatus or anything else.
Medical colleges all over the com. u
ry are cooperating in the work and c
most OF them-about fifty. to be exact [
nave instituted a course of military q
urgery for their senior year. Army a
nd navy medical instructors have II
zen assigned TO these schools and q
I've lectures on the most aDproved b
Methods of handling the III and wound.
u on the battlefield and in hospitals. u
ne instruction was undertaken recent e
y AFTER conference between the c
cans OF the schools and the members 81
the commission, at the invitation of "
'ewtOn ID. Baker, secretary of war 81
The care of wounded men is one of j
ne most important questions to be
pnSidered in time of war" saws Doc "
)r simpson. by proper treatment e
re can be conserved to MAXIMUM u
egree-a fact which should appeal to c
II men in the medical profession e,
neither pacifists or not. G
The commission is meeting with re- n,
larkable success in its work. Every. al
mere the medical profession has al
lo"n a Willingness to do its part in a,
he nations preparedness. h,
What we are striving to do Is 70 b.
nj the specialists who are needed for OIL
lat conservation of life. We want fe
ma the groove in which each man CT
Is best, and place him in il whom noe. Sc
'sary." in
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