Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12

from Calais, could change cars and
take through express trains for the
siviera, 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 Marine, 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
| here?" she repeated in answer to q
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 l have
used American methods everywhere. l
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 few of
them-a few of the more advanced
physicians-have followed my exam
pie and have instituted American
practices themselves In other hospitals.
Il have had wonderful success with
my typhoid cases, using the ice-bag
methods instead of the hot bath treat
meats that they wanted to insist on
giving. And | have always special
lied on fresh air and cold air, too. ex-
Cept under certain circumstances, and
cleanliness everywhere.
mo patient has ever used a hand
kerchief in this hospital, and no one
ever will while | 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
gauze 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 ply
| Sician, no nurse, nor even an orderly
on scrubwOman has ever caught dis
| 7 hn1 N,,th I'M
worse than the cold and the sore
throat that l have now since / 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 I
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 little
frightened at first; they who have
been taught that fresh air means a
'draught and who have never become
| oh wv tClii WIN swap anu
water, especially during cold weather
To-day l received Kabyle-a ma
tive from the French colonies in north
ern Africa-and that man finished my
collection. l 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
Amiens. Then when the Russians
were on the front I had number of
them with scarlet fever. We had Sene-
galese, the black troops from Central
Africa we had Moors 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
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 con-
centration camp was picked up here
with diphtherla, and finally a Bull
garian who had struggled his way