The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-27
GRAPHIC STORY OF A DOCTORS CORPS
 ON FRONT IS TOLD
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ng 250 men, or 750 to the three am oulances. For transport each ambu lance has fifty horses, seven motors, and three horse ambulances, with general service, limbered wagons, and carts. Each section is selfcontained and marches with bearers, tent or lerlies, transport and equipment At any moment a section can fall out and open up with all appliances for life and work in the field. Fuel food, fodder. and water are carried which suffice until rations are drawn The sections can be as quickly as sembed, and the bearers of all am large operations as took place at Vimy and on the Somme.
 The Ambulance Corps
 For each precise moment a nigh degree of military training is essential; and in physique the men must be the best, for the work is heavy and the marches arduous. The ambulance bearers and officers have their advanced headquarters 200 yards back from the parapet in the regi- mental aid posts, and in action they go over just behind the infantry. They are trained soldiers; the trans port carried arms until quite recently they were practiced in musketry, and all were qualified to take their place on parade with the other elements of the division.
 "The Red Cross no longer exists ex- cept as the emblem of an eleemos- ynary institution which provides an outlet for the love of civilians for heir soldiers. The medical service aas become an integral, and not an lncialliary part of the army. The Red Cross provides no especial pro lection because it is so closely iden- flied with the service that neither side can recognize it, although nm bound to say I have never seen my deliberate violation of the tra- litional emblem. On the contrary,
 think the enemy has withheld it's fire from our stations which could oe observed as such. He has, of .ourse, destroyed our ambulances by she'll fire; he has killed our officers md bearers; he has dropped shells md bombs upon our stations-but hat is the chances of war.
 "A field ambulance, then, is not especially medical problem. In my own unit, which contains nine medi- ,al officers, the Colonel fell at Coursellette; Major gained the D. s. O.; two captains won the Milf tary Cross; two were mentioned in lispatches-all for military virtue as ,part from professional knowledge and skill.
 Millions To Keep Healthy
 But this days work was merely m accident, or an interruption, in he regular work of the medical ser yice. We have several millions of nen to keep in health and care for n sickness; and the system by which hese ends are gained is much more efficiently organized than it is here London for the civil population. \ battalion of a thousand men can )e innoculated in 35 minutes. The lumber and variety of hospitals are almost perplexing, and it taxes one 1t the front to remember where each class of case is to be sent. Mild in ections go to one place. more yiru ent cases to another, and the chan lels are kept distinct. There is seg regation or quarantine, and mobile laboratory is always available for the exact diagnosis of the less common diseases.
 q am astonished continually at the extraordinary talent available. l re erred to our Major, who just hap )ened to be a dermatologist. He named the condition erytheme null tiforme The diagnosis was written )n the Field Medical Card and with he iris In England it came under he eye of the most famous of Lon lon specialists. He sent back an Inquiry through the usual channels because of the diagonsis was correct md he was, I thought, little irri .ated, as he supposed that no one n the army but himself was entitled 0 make so fine diagnosis. Il turned out that the young Canadian Major had once been a pupil of the London dermatologist.
 "The Medical Service, above al other service. has done it's perfect work. It has yielded an army with put sickness. I have never seen 9 case of typhoid, and the few infec ious cases are of the nature of chil lren's diseases. For the first time
  Tn army which Is free from vener cal diseases.
 There are occasional sporadic cases. To conceal the disease is a erime The infected man is handed over to the Assistant Provost Mar shal, who ascertains the source, and las the source of contagion deported.
 By the days work on Vimy Ridge we convinced ourselves and proved tothe enemy we cannot be beaten. After that other and later days work at Messines Ridge we can say with surety that we shall win, that the enemy will be defeated and that he will defeat himself in the slow effluxiOn of time. We are now free to prolong the war uutil 1t suits us to bring it to a close.
 "In the beginning we were inclined to take the German at his own esti mate of himself. Now we have the true measure of him. and we are not in the least afraid Docile yet courageous, hating other lands, yet loving his own, hysterical yet ob- stinate, he continues to be formi- dable foe Although we have long l.