Williams news., 1918-06-21
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 from Calais, could change cars ana
 take through express trains for the
 Riviera, for Switzerland or for Ger
 many. The great steel bridge across the Disc, which the retreating French blew up in August, 1914, before the battle of the Marne, is still resting in the river bed, and traffic is carried on by several smaller bridges thrown across the stream by army engineers.
 Introduced American Methods.
 "What sort of diseases do we get question:; "why, everything from smallpox and typhus down to scarlet fever and measles, with diphtheria and typhoid and bronchitis perhaps the most prevalent. And whatever success have made of this hospital is due primarily to the fact that I have used American methods everywhere. I have scandalized the patients and shocked the French doctors, but at the beginning they were kind with me and let me have my way. Since they have seen the results that have followed the application of our American treat ment and methods they have been will ing for me to do So and a few of them-a few of the more advanced physicians followed my exam pie and have instituted American practices themselves in other hospitals.
 'I have had wonderful success with my typhoid cases, using the ice-bag methods instead of the hot bath treat ments that they wanted to insist on giving. And I have always special ized on fresh air and cold air, too, ex- cept under certain circumstances, and cleanliness everywhere.
 "No patient has ever used a hand kerchief in this hospital, and no one ever will while I have anything to do with it,'' continued Mrs. Bradley Lee. "Science knows that nearly all con- tagion is spread through the nose and mouth. Well, none of the soldiers here are given handkerchiefs or are per mitted to wipe their noses or mouths with anything but little squares of gauge which they throw into closed receptacles immediately after they use them once.
 "That is one reason why this is the only hospital in all of France in which no member of the staff, no phy- SlCldu, uO uOI 0NGH dn OTuOT1y or scrubwoman has ever caught a dis ease here. I have never had anything worse than the cold and the sore throat that I have now since I have worked on men suffering with typhus and smallpox, and been with them for days and nights, hour after hour.
 "There is not another hospital in France that has that record, and have only lost one typhoid patient in all these three years, just by strictly following the American method of treatment all the time.
 Patients Frightened at First.
 "The poor patients were a little frightened at first; they who have been taught that fresh air means a 'draught' and who have never become on too intimate terms with soap and water, especially during cold weather.
 To-day I received Kabyle-a na- tive from the French colonies in north ern Afrfca-and that man finished my collection. I have had a man from every nationality fighting in this war during the last three years. Chiefly my patients have been French, of course, but I have also had a good many Belgians and British, sent down | on the main line railroad through | Ainiens. Then when the Russians | were on the front I had a number of | them with scarlet fever We had Sene- galese, the black troops from Central | Africa; we had Moers and Algerians, Italians and Roumanians from the foreign legion, a Portuguese aviator, and the chauffeur for the king of | Montenegro. Many German prisoners of war have been brought here, and I | had an Austrian aviator who was with | the German flying service and had | been shot down on this front. Then | a Turk who had escaped from a con- centration camp was picked up here with dfphtheria, and finally a Bull garian who had smuggled his way |