Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-05-29
WOUNDED SOLDIER
WELL CARED FOR
BY FRANK j. TAYLOR

With HE AMIR1CAN EAPEJl-
TIONARY FORCES AT THE FRONT,
April 25.-If it were not for the fact
mat he would lose out while his COM
rades were ''walloping the Heinies'
the average doughboy would consider
1t a great privilege to get wounded
and go through the series of medical
treatment now ready to save the lives
OF the boys over here. The medical
men have left nothing half done, and
have quietly organized and built until
Uncle Sans hospitals are considered
by many the best along the front
Follow the course of one Private
Jones, just to see what big job the
medical men have solved. Private
Jones might be from anywhere in the
states, and his name might be any
thing but Jones-it would he contrary
to army regulations to use his right
name anyway
Private Jones was wounded in bar
rage in No Mans Land, and when he
fell he thought his time had come
But he had another guess coming.
The ambulance men, disregarding
regulations, dangers, and the heat of
the battle ran their light machines al
most to where Private Jones fell. Orr
dinarily they don't do that, but in
times of battle the American ambu
lance men have just one idea in their
heads, namely, saving the lives of
chaps like Private Jones who face
every means of frightfulness the Huns
can design.
To First Aid Post.
Speedily and with as little jolting
as possible, Private Jones, now on a
stretcher in the light ambulance, is
brought back to first aid post in a
shell wrecked village where some
doctors work in dug-gouts under fire.
Private Jones probably already has
had first aid applications out on the
field where he fell, his comrades of
the ambulance having cody bound up
his wounds enough to pre- ,nl bleed
ing-all this while the explosive shells
rained around them. They may have
worked hours in gas, cropping around
with their masks hampecng free ac-
ton
From the first aid post three or four
lAiles behind the from; lines, Private
Jones is sent in an ambulance with
others to the front evacuation hos
pital, some ten miles from No Mans
Land Here he is put into a bed with
fine clean sheets, and motherly SORT
of nurse sees that he gets his first
scrubbing and something to eat. II
his wound is serious, he is rushed off
to one of eight oporsting rooms,
x-rayed, operated upon, treated, and
sent back to bed-all in such q short
time he never knows what has happen
ed.
Fine Hospital Ready.
If he is in the se3tdr northwest OF
Toul at the time he is wounded, Pri-
vate Jones is evacuated to one of the
largest and best evacuation hospitals
along the whole. There are eight OPP
Grating rooms such as he il in, and
in each there are scFera! teams Of
doctors, who operate on four hundred
cases a day when a battle is on or
can double the number if necessary.
The place is in charge of an east
ern doctor, a little fellow who physi
cally, is not very military, so the
French used to say. This man has ar
ranged that men like Private Jones
have x-rays for half dozen different
diseases or infections before he is sent
on, and as the doctors says. when
mans been with us twenty-four hours
there isn't bug on him that we don't
know bout.
If Private Jones is slightly wounded
he'll recover in a few days. he stays
at his evacuation hospital. II not, he
is made ready to be sent on co per-
manent and convalescent hospital
miles and miles from bombardments
at the front Here is where he gets
the surprise of his life In an ambu-
lance he is taken to nearby railroad
siding, where long train of sixteen
cars waits. Private Jones thinks he is
back in U. S. A because they are
long graceful cars like the ones at
home. and there is no class marked
on them or go hommes on chevaux. :"
Hospital De Luxe,
This is one of the several hospital
trains now operated bv the American
army. running from the front to the
sea. and passing big hospitals on the
wav Each car can hold from thirty