Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-04-20
MEDICAL ARMY BEING M0b0LIzED FOR WAR SERVICE


put in operation before. In this way
the strength of the patient, an impor-
tant factor for the assistance OF his
recovery, is conserved.
When q soldier Is placed on q
stretcher at the battle line he is car
ried to waiting ambulance. The am
bulance, in turn, receiving the patient,
does not place him on one OF its own
stretchers. but gives a stretcher to the
men who have carried the man. If the
ambulance drives to a hospital train,
which is the general custom where the
railroad lines are intact almost to the
trenches, the train gives the ambulance
stretcher, accepting at the same time
the man and the stretcher on which
he Is being carried. This system works
throughout the system Of transpOrta-
ton, so that a 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 a 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 a place where his recovery is most
likely. DELICATE operations cannot al
ways be conducted on these trains. but
it is possible to do certain things which
are important in saving mans life,
such as stopping the flow Of blood
from a broken artery. the amputation
of an arm or leg or the like.
To Learn Full Medical Resources.
e When the commission obtains a full
q list of medical officers throughout the
: country they will be asked to supply
J, elaborate statistics on the medical re-
: sources of the various states, hospitals
l. schools for the re-educatiOn Of wound
s ed soldiers, and factories equipped
). to manufacture medical supplies. The
l. question of finding schools is one of the
It great considerations. Men who have
n been blinded will be taught to become
e self-sustaining at some new line o.
e. work; men without arms will be In
E. structed in some line Of endeavo
N which requires no arms each case will
be taken up and worked out in itself
Is in a general effort to reduce to mini
Is mum the number of hopelessly cripple'
rs men as the result of war.
s. Arrangements also are being made I
m effect a Standardization Of medica
st supplies. Companies manufacturin
~ certain types of medicines, surgical In
~ struments, splints, bandages and sim
a,1 Nrly wi
be invited to send samples to the con
h mission, to be placed on exhibition |
Washington. From these will be d.
I veloped the best practical appliance
and the various companies will be ii
formed on what will be the needs
time of war.
Medical Colleges Give Aid.
Almost all of the medical suppl
manufacturers of the country, whe
the proposal first was being consi
cred, wrote to Washington expressir
willingness to cooperate in al
scheme which seemed practical. Sue
system will not only effect a stan
ardization but will permit the cOmmi
sion, with full facts at hand, to reg
late the supply in all lines, so tn
.:I there will not be surplus Of stretc
81 ers, a surplus Of certain type
# surgical apparatus or anything else.
Medical colleges all over the cOu
try are cooperating in the work, al
8: most of them-abOut fifty. to be exa
have instituted q course of militia
surgery for their senior year. Arr
and navy medical instructors ha
been assigned to these schools, Al
# give lectures ON the most approx
mal methods of handling the Ill and wOur
sM ed on the battlefield and in hOspita
s$l The instruction was undertaken recel
ly, after conference between t
deans of the schools and the membt
of the commission, at the invitation
Newton d. Baker, secretary Of war
THE care Of wounded men Is one
the most important questions to
considered In time Of war;" says d
. tor Simpson. by proper treatm'
Jr life can be conserved to a maXiml
,ful degree-a ract "hich shouiu appear
4 a all men in the medical protest.
aw. whether pacifists or not.
Who THE commission Is meeting with
,me markable success in its work. Eve
,ok- where the medical profession
gal shown a willingness to do its part
esi- the nations preparedness.
age what we are striving to do is
ma find the specialists who are needed
eri- that conservation of life. We w
AT to find the groove in which each n
she fits best, and place him in it when r
essary."
,ital and mouth. So the doctors out