The Prescott daily news., 1918-04-10
Wounded Pous recuperatin0 at Mrs. Bradley Bradley Lee shown in first dre sed 

| from Calais, could change cars and 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 here" she repeated in answer to 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 1 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 StCh tit iphp"NN 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.
 "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 l have always special ized on fresh air and cold air, too. ex- cept under certain circumstances, and cleanliness everywhere.
 No patient has ever used hand kerchef 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 receptacies 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 stan, no phy- sician, no nurse. nor even an orderly or scrubwoman has ever caught dis ease here. I have never had anything l hA and thn throat that l have now. since l 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 l 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 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 Africa-and that man finished my collection. I have had 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, 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 a con- centration camp was picked up here with diphtheria. and finally a Bull garian who had smuggled his way