The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-07-01

teen days until they developed the fever.
II was tormcntinE ordeal. Their
arms hecamn open sores fr"1n "hich
bircd and puS p"n"trnt HE dressings.
Tho first attack Of fever and blirdlnE
hea1achc must have come as a welcome
relief 70 intnle:able itching.
All Are Made IL
Not nun but that came down with
fever. One man ran n high Temperatures.
for forty days and nights without
break. but with most of The mrH the
fever and the pain were rcmttcn'-
Some suffered 81 severely that the doc
tors were obliged % inject morphia.
Those mon who wcrc incculAtcd with
tho blood OF the trench fever patients
the malady almost immc-
d:atcly. They suffered vari"usly with
pain and fever. jus, as the others did
: The monotony ,nt it was bad" said
one Of the mon. a big tcams'"r from
Boston. ''Nothin' 10 do but lay ticr"
and burn up and curse the pains In your
blasted lrcs. Next day you'd feel h"t-
Ter, perhaps. but $" weak that you
couldn't movc The nurses wcrN lin.
and here was plenty 10 eat. Hut wc
were women around or NOT and tho best
stuff they gave US TO eat lasted ike
sawdust."'
Thcv agreed tina. tho rnon:"ny of OK
istcnce in trench fever was worse thar
III. nair. Life was n dr"ary waste. The
eyrs oc tho patients were =" affected
tina: they were even denied inc So!ace
Of reading.
In Line Of Drive.
The worst was yet to come for th"s"
devoted servants ~ science. When IN"
German drive began on III" c1st OF last
March Il was found that their isolation
hospital. thought to. be SO SAFE. was d.
rcctly in tho line of attack. Lying IN
their beds. with nothing over th"m hui
trnt walls. thcrr rrvcr-rackrd h"tli"s and
weakened limbs hccamr torincnt"d hy
IN. Shrek of shells and tn" roar "f
artillery. German airplan"s dron"1 over
their headseand bombs exploded around
them.
They wouldn't lot us get M and So"
tho show" Crumblcd ono lad in III" rest
hnspttal Some Of us Crawl"d tn III"
door OF tho ton, and saw a littlo. tm,
those English nurses sho"cd Ms back
and when it gnt hotter LhSy mad" us
:.
stern. those English nurses. Yuu hav"
10 mind thcm rs though they ucr' til"
doc himself"
By March 81 tho plaC" had @nt ZOO
he, 70 hold fnvalids. and III" men wore"
taken down To 1aris. Th" journey was
n fright. No beds. little food or WATER
slow trains which took tw"nty-f"ur
hours to traverse Il diStanc" OF fifty
odd miles: hut tho mon stood It. and
iwhcn 7 saw them IN tho hospital near
Paris all hrIt on" was out Of bod anh
IN tho road Ia health They vcr" cat
ing VOL. and more than ono begged IN"
to -Ise M Influence "a got them cut
OF the hospital.
Pest Now Doomed.
When n sick man begins tn "a' l'N"
a harvest hand and hrr I" iSct "ui 1t ny
diratcS that he has only a few weeks
Of corvalcsrrncr ahead nf him. NJ least
tina, is what the head physician Of tn"
hospital. when 7 put In their petitions.
told me-.
Tho cause 81 trench fever. thanks 20
our knrn army and Fed Cross surgeons,
and 20 tho courageous ,n"n who v''iuI-
.ocrrd ~ hrIr them. has I"fint''l" h'"n
established. Tho trench loUs" onc" 'ail-
cd n nuisance. Is TOW known :" l." al
most rs dangerous AS thH st"G"myH ms
quito.
Tho trench lousn must u" 90; rid OF,
nnd that. happily. is NO: = very htffl"ult
affnir Our American army Huth"r!'''I
will take caro- If shat And cur sons.
wc may hr thankful I" know. mr." going
TO hc shared on" 90 the In"&t Frequent
and most painful afflictl"nS IT tn" VA.