The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-09-20
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE" "
DR.. SappingtOn Tells Something Of The
Attention Given to a Wsunded
Soldier.

DSIWSSi Vic OppOoiiiS diiilico II
called.
We divide them into two class
es: Walking wounded, anc
Stretcher cases. The man wound
ed, but not so badly but that ht
can walk, goes back to his Battal
ion Aid Post, which is located al
the Battalion headquarters. Here
is the Battalion Medical officer in
a splinter proof, made of SAND
bags and corrugated iron, but il
is not shrapnel proof, however.
The officer gives the wound its
first dressing, and the man goes
on, passing the Advanced Dress
ing station, until he come to the
Main Dressing station, where
his wound may be re-dressed.
He is now sent to the Walking
Wounded collecting station. He
is then picked up by a lowy or
ambulance, generally the former
(as the ambulance is kept for
stretcher cases) and taken to the
casualty clearing station. This
is we'll back out of danger, and
here they operate for any for
eign body. If the wound is but
slight, he may be sent back to
his battalion, or to the corps Rest
station. Usually slightly wound
ed cases never get this far, but
are shipped back to the Main
Dressing station.
A Stretcher case is picked up
by the battalion stretcher bearers
(men from each battalion trained
while in rest), who carry him
back to the battalion aid post,
where he is dressed; and, in case
of a fracture, a Thomas splint is
applied. Then the ambulance
bearers take him to the Adv. DR..
Station; and should the Medical
Officer of the battalion be too
busy to have applied a splint, it
is done here.
He is then taken by wheel
stretchers or bearers (who, in
the last push" were Hun pris-
oners) to the main Dressing Sta
ton. If the shelling is not too
severe and we are not too crowd
ed, we may keep them until
night. This, of course, all de-
pends upon the number and the
kind of country we are in. The
Advanced Dressing Station is
usually a dug-out and shell, proof.
On account of the fact that the
water is so close to the surface
in the country here, we have
much trouble in getting places
for advanced dressing stations.
After the patient gets to the
main dressing station hei is placed
on an ambulance and taken to
the Casualty Clearing Station.
Here he is kept and operated up
on, or dressed, if an operation is
not needed. If he is able to be
he is put on the hospital
train, which fills up at the Cas-
Ialty Clearing Station and is
sent to the Base Hospital for
treatment.
All cases are'given anti-tetanus
antitoXin at the advance dress
ing station dosage 500 to 1900
units according to the severity of
the wound. The casualty clear
ing station can accommodate 1000
patients and the walking wound
cd and head cases are sent to one
and the other kind of stretcher
Eases to the other casualty sta
ton. The head cases are kept
At that station about ten days be-
fore being evacuated. Forty
per cent. die at the casualty clear
ilS SJdIlOu.
At the Base hospital, the man
is operated on if he has not been
at the G. c. S., and if it is a
wound of any size, and he is not
a temperature over 1901
ne is sent over to England as
soon as he can leave usually in
shree days. Slight wounds that
will be well in two or three
weeks are kept until they need no
further dressing, and then sent
10 a convalescent camp, and
from there back to the line.
LIEUT.. w. F. SAPPINGToN,
61st Field Amb., B. E. F.,