Evening star., 1918-07-07

do to become q candidate. He may
even have preliminary examination
by that officer.
The status Of enlisted men entering
of the directly inducted will be private
hrst class. Unfit candidates will be
eliminated as soca as 1t becomes
evident that they cannot make good.
On graduation those who have been
successful will receive certificate
that they are qualified to be commits
stoned second lieutenant and will
be returned to the replacement camp
In the same status as they had before
entering. During the last two weeks
OF the course the school officers will
mako careful ratings of tho candi-
dates. This will indicate. as far as
nossible. the particular position each
10 best qualified to fill.
Omcers from abroad have warm
words Of praise for the officers who
received their training in the camps.
but 1t is recognized that the training
division has made q great advance in
the organization Of the central camps.
~
r HE prominent division OF the Army
Surgeon generals office Is the
surgical division, which has direct cars
OF men wounded in action. The ad-
ministrative section Of that division.
located in Washington, has the train
ing in military ways Of the civilian
surgeons who have entered the Army,
and that training is. above all other
things, practiced. In the school at
Oglethorpe, Ca, suggestions eminent in
civil practice wear from twelve to
twenty-four hours the splints that
they must later put upon others. in
order that they may learn the feel
of. them, where and how they hold or
bind.
The division. besides collating all
sent to every hospital and school.
sends out a monthly bulletin contain
ing all the latest surgical information
of value in practical military surgery.
This is necessary because since the
early days of the war practice has so
changed that where at first 100 per
cent Of the wounds became infected,
now more than 80 per cent are healed
without infection. After the first bat
ties most of the wounded were held
in the hospitals for weeks or months;
now a far greater number return to
the ranks in from two to four weeks.
1t is the Carrel method of treatment.
almost unknown before the war. that
has wrought this seeming miracle.
Hence most of the civilian surgeons
now in the Army have to be instructed
in this treatment of the wounded, al
though it is the civilian surgeons who
have contributed to this phase of sur
gerry, which is said to depend upon
excision of the infected parts for
its effectiveness. The division has
opened special schools of instruction
in these methods in some ten of the
leading cities of the Union.
But the division has organized its
great training school for military
surgeons at Camp Oglethorpe. Ga. 1t
has placed in charge Of the school
Maj. Edward Martin. formerly pro.
fessor at the medical school OF the
University Of Pennsylvania. He, with
a corps Of instructors. will supple
ment the instruction OF the medical
officers training school with the spe-
cial course in military surgery. These
courses will cover wounds, excision
Of infected tissue. use of new antisep-
tics, applicants Of splints and all other
special instruction of practical value
in the practice Of military surgery.
The instructors form the student
medical officers into groups of fifteen
or twenty. and with each group take
with each particular subject.
Maj. Martin Is also director of the
base hospital at Oglethorpe, and con-
sequently hospital and school are
closely cooperating. with efhciency
gain to eACn. NAL. Martin y dS6lSthHI
is Capt. Edsall Lee. M. O. r. c.. who
has recently returned from a years
service on the western 'front.'
~ HE War Department has Issued
special regulation No. 55. for
for physical examinations of entrants
to the Army, whether by voluntary
enlistment or by induction under the
selective draft act. The essential
feature of the order is that it adopts
the same physical requirements for all
troops, the Regular and National
armies and the National Guard. 1t
abrogates general order Sc, which
set the standards for entry into the
Regular Army. The new regulation
does away with calling to the colors
and making them a part of the local
boards contingent men who by oper-
ative treatment may be made At for
military duty. This course will re-
lieve camps and medical officers from
the cure and treatment of these men
where they are a burden. This
this class Of curables will escape
military duty or surgical treatment,
for they will be placed in a deferred
class subject to call when the gov
ernment requires their services. The
delay will give them the opportunity
which some OF them have sought of
putting themselves in charge of ply
sicians of their own selection for
treatment