The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-24
SURGICAL FEATS PERFORMED AT
 HOSPITALS


 being accomplished every day of the war by the surgeons who treat sol diers wounded on the battlefield. These remarkable feats have increas- ed in frequency as the stricken men are more quickly gathered in by the ambulances and brought to the field hospitals for surgical intervention.
 At the beginning of the war it was not always possible to clear up bat tlefield of the casualties in less than three or four days. and on many ocas- sions wounded men waited even long, CT before their injuries could be handl- ed, The result of this was that large from gangrene or blood poisoning, or were rendered so feeble from loss of blood that they were unable to under go operations that were vitally neces- sary It was at that time regarded as a satisfactory result when sixty per cent of the wounded brought into the hospitals recovered eventually from their injuries.
 This percentage of losses among the wounded men would at present be regarded with horror by the military surgeons, who now reckon with per feet assurance on saving about nine tenths of the wounded men coming under their treatment. During the battle of Flanders the percentage of recoveries among wounded men brought to the hospitals amounted to eighty-six.
 This striking figure was still furth- CT improved on the occasion of the battle in which the French wrested from the Germans the fort of Malmais- on and caused them to evacuated the Shemin des Danes after throwing away hundreds of thousands of the Crown Princes best troops in the eff forts to retain it. The French sur geons' reports after the conclusion of the fighting and the treatment of all wounded show that ninety men out of every hundred brought to hospital re- covered from their hurts.
 Speed in collecting the wounded is the greatest factor in bringing about this progress.
 Americans have had much to do with the speeding up of the ambulance service, for their ambulances have been present at every point where fighting has been severe and their work has been highly praised by the army commanders. Americans have done much in providing hospital ac- commodatiori near the front as we'll as at the bases.
 One instance of American effort in providing for the accommodation and treatment of the wounded is that un- der the management of Miss Kathleen Park, of New York, at her chateau of Annel. There she has worked almost since the very beginning of the war. While the battle for the fort of Nal maison was in progress the hospital dealt with a considerable number of wounded, who were first bandaged on the battlefield and then brought down the river Aisne on board a barge fitted up as floating hospital.
 Miss Park says there is only one thing needed to make her hospital complete and that is what is known as an "autochir," composed of a travel ing surgical outfit carried in five au- tomible wagons-one for the operat- ing room, one for the pathological ex- aminations of wounds, one for carry ing bandages and supplies, one for the staff and the fifth to convey the tent for the beds on which the men lie after the operations and while waiting to be conveyed to the barge for transport to the hospital base in the rear. If she possessed .his port able hospital she is convinced that many lives would be saved since ra- piditv of treatment is the main factor in dealing with wounds
 Miss Park has working with her in coniunctiOn with the French military