The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-23

laboratory work. l will go to market
 (about 12 miles away) twice a week. My laboratory Is the best place of the entire
 hospital, good daylight and ventilation
 one good big workroom and small room
 for making medicine and for sterilization | We have all necessary equipment for chemical pathology and bacteriology but
 nothing for surgical or general pathology I However, we are trying to get the
 necessary things for doing this work.
 My lab. is in the same building as l operating rooms, which makes 1t very l convenient There are five frame 1 buildings, everything else tents, but | tents have double walls. The frame
 buildings are used one for operating
 room, one an X ray room. one for ad ' | ministrative building and the other
 three as wards for patients who are | very III. The large tents in use for | patients. as wards. and hold from 20 | 10 56 patients each with one nurss | m charge of two tents. We are very
 much pleased with the place and feel U IS an excellent military hospital. Have 200O beds in all and at present | nave something like 1000 or 1900 pa :
 tents Ambulance or Red Cross trains orlng them from the fighting zone to the station near us. then they are | brought by ambulance to the hospital | Afnpulances are driven by women. It | IS wonder to see how the men are l handled, 200 are brought in and in
 less than half hour they are classed. 1 assigned and in their wards in bed, and within a very few minutes are re !. celving nourishment. All are much
 better nourished than I ever though 'lhey would be- cheerful lot they are, highly optimistic a to the out come or the war However the poor l fellows who have trench fever are a
 downcast lot-they have the most ter | r1ble aches and pains in their heads :, backs and legs. Nothing much relieves 1 them except morphine This condition with temperature 103 to 10S. lasts only 1 three to five days, when they are | again a cheerful lot But they go through the same suffering again, have their remissions over a period of four or five weeks before they are well entirely. At times trench fever looks like malaria, again like typhoid, and again like old breakbone fever, but it is none of these. because all means of diagnosis have been used and il Ctrench fever) comes under none of the above. It is new condition, with an entity all it's own and the first or exciting cause has not been deter. mined. It is a disease peculiar to men in trenches and we think it some type of soil infection.
 
 An Australian private was in the hospital recently and he had his little white and tan terrior with him. He had smuggled the dog from Australia on the transport. had managed to get him to the front during firing, fighting ana everything he had him with him and by some means he managed to get him down to this base hospital and when he left for England man antt yxa tno ha cfr atah "Over the German trenches are signs, 'Gott mot uns.'' One morning bright Irish lad put a sign over their owu trench, We got init uns too"
 Concerts or vaudeville acts of some kinds are given out of doors or in some of the Y. M. c. A. huts. Last night one song. The Day When Peace Is Declared was productive of thoughts of home and home coming. though possibly long and far away. The women in France are doing more work than we found them do ing in England. On going to market this week I passed factories and brick yards where women were doing prac tically evergthing-shovel dirt, moving brick. rolling huge boards il. wheelbarrows. Some were out in the fields blowing, others cutting hay. They are certainly keeping things growing all right. ! wish you could go to their markets. Each town has it's market days-about two a week. when every body turns out The vegetables, fruits, fowls, eggs are sold in public buying places and it is a great fun to hear the women praising their own goods and condemning all others. In shrll, high tone woman will say, pointing to her things Tres bon while in higher tone she will say, pointing to other goods, non bon
 About one and a half miles from the post we can go in swimming. Ii is interesting to see airplanes, allies over our place, flying high, at great speed.
 French Bird and I had a long walk tonight-myriads of buttercups and hawthorne bushes I have seen wonderful rhododendron In bloom. It looked so American that I saluted it as fellow in ranks-a source of cheer.
 "'The people have been very good to us. The children yell. Bon jour. Mon sieur America All the little fellows know Lincoln pennies. The grown ups too. are wild about the Americans they treat us like long lost brothers and actually weep in gratitude of hay Ing Americans over here in our own uniforms Strange, our friends, the St Louis and Philadelphia units got the reports when they were In Liver pool that our boat was sunk and all aboard lost. They were in mourning for us. When we marched into the ho tel in which they were stopping they said they felt like they were shak ing hands with ghosts. You cannot imagine their surprise and delight Did you folks at home get the same re - port? l am happy in my work and Tn serving my country
 Lieut.. Marcus Perry Neal was born in Heflin and graduated at the Uni vercity College of Medicine. Richmond Va. was three years head of the bac terio therapeutic laboratory, Ashe vile, N. c. At the time he was called to service was a teacher in North western university medical college Chicago, Ill, and left America as member of the Chicago unit. His letter while dealing in facts gives a cheer full side to the sacrifice of our mon at war.
 And the wide world Is knit with ties of common brotherhood in pain"
 Enough diamonds are sacrificed each year in the average automobile factory to fit up dozen kings crowns Quantity production of automobiles requires that every one of the 10000 parts turned out