Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-08-15
TELLS OF CONDI-
TIONS IN FRANCE.
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As I sit here writing, i can see
three aeroplanes doing scout duty
over the city and very often one sees
/ looking ike advertisements for
some Havana cigar.
To-day, Mr.. Martin and ] went
down TO spend an entire morning IN
Notre Dame, having been there al
ready several times. We recalled
1 Victor Hugo's s&Hunchback" and
/ Dickens Tale of Two Cities" as we
sat in the shadow of those marvellous
flying buttreSSeS. We are very fond
of visiting the church of St, Etienne
du Mont, which possesses the love
lest stained-g glass windows that /
have ever seen, excepting perhaps
those of Sainte Chapelle. We at
tended service sc the Madeleine and
lowed - some delightful music on
the big organ.
I'VE are getting accustomed TO war
bread with no butter and no desserts,
with meat but once a day, at noon.
| On Thursdays and Fridays, no pas
/ try or sweets are sold anywhere IN
Paris, and one can can almost never
/ buy can of milk or cream except
/ through the kindness of hotels or
wholesale dealers.
Eve had a taste of our future work
when we were invited to visit the
American ambulance hospital at
/ Neuilly, just outside of the Paris
gates. This hospital was originally
an incomplete group of buildings
designed for a boys boarding school,
i and taken over at the beginning of
/ the war by members of the American
colony in Paris, to be fitted up in
splendid shape as a huge relief hos
/ pital. It is arranged according to
the type of WoundS,-fractureS IN
one ward, abdominal wounds else
J where, etc.
1--WE saw the new Carre1 treatment
IN actual operation everywhere. A
nurse uncovered one poor soldiers
wounded thigh to exhibit the method
i of inserting the numerous rubber
! tubes, and the process of irrigation
i which Is repeated every two hours.
day and night, from little glass jar
of the solution suspended above the
patients bed connected by rubber
tubes with clamps, which open and
shut off the flow of the irrigatlng
patient ] could see healthy red
muscle which had been cut and LAGER
ated by shrapnel, lying open even ex-
posing the bone, but without the
slightest sign of pus and no bleed
ing,-and as the nurse opened The
little clamps on the rubber tube,
saw that wound thoroughly flushed
out by this antiseptie solution, carry
/ ing away any pus which might have
collected during the previous two
hours. Eventually these wounds
the patient suffers but very little
during the treatment. Few tight
bandages are used for such wounds,
Ia turn or two of coarse gauze be-
ing the only dressing about those
| inserted rubber tubes which pene-
trate deeply into the wound,-the
limb, of course, being strapped and
lying in a sort of trough to carry
away the surplus liquid during irrl-
CATION
1--WE had an opportunity to visit
the ward where injuries Of the head.
particularly the face and jaw, were
treated, this department having &C
complished most miraculous things;
but Mr.. Martin grew paler and paler
as we proceeded through this hospi-
| tai, and the nurse smilingly led us to
the glass case of plaster casts, show
ing exact records of patients whose
whole lower half of the face had been
shot away by bits of shrapnel; with
subsequent casts taken during the
process of building up new set of
features,-too wonderful to believe.
Eve are rather relieved to learn
that our contingent does not handle
/ the wOunded,-our task being merely
TO drive the cars, one man at the
/ wheel and the other man to help IN
case of emergency,-so that the
notwithstanding is left to others
who know better how to handle the
poor suffering fellows. We are not
allowed to give first aid treatment
As yet we have no definite infOrma-
/ ton concerning our departure to the
/ front,-but there are rumors, (many
Of them) to the effect that the men
who arrived by the Chicago" and
/ Rochambeau" (about 50 in number)
are to be grouped in an entirely new
section, Number q, but where that
will be located no one has the faint
est idea.
''You have read, and probably for
gotten by this time, the account of
| the Rochambeau's encounter with a
submarine. / wrote one hurried and
/ fresh account OF our experience on
/ board to Olivia Paine, after our ar
rival in Bordeaux, almost before my
legs quit shaking from fear, and
since then ] have refrained from al
/ luding TO it because of the censor, as
the report was circulated that letters
describing the attack would be con-
/ fscated.
1T was a thrilling experience and
one TO recollect with certain amount
Of satisfaction now that it is ali
over. Many of Us were sitting on
the stern deck, basking In the late
afternoon sunshine, some asleep IN
their steamer chairs, while Others
were quietly conversing over their
cups Of hot bouiIlon, which had just
been served,-the sea so calm that
every floating object was visible
the Iifeboats having been lowered
two days before TO the rail level, but
seeming so useless and unnecessary,
since we were but 30 miles from