A NIGHT ON AN
ARMYAMBULANCE
I don’t want to tell just where
is happened; it was somewhere
in rranee. Rules were bioken
to let me in, and friendship got
me the loan of a stretcher-carr
er’s uniform—so it won’t do to
tell where it was and get some
one into trouble.
A call came for ambulances,
There had been fighting, no one
knew where, and a long, unlight
ed train was creaking its way out
toward us, heavy with the dying
and some dead. There were not
enough stretcher-bearers.
Needed Man Badly.
The officer in charge of the Red
Cross station was madly search
ing for anything in uniform to do
a grewsoine night’s work of un
loading the train and conducting
the little Ford ambulances to
medical civilization.
It was my chance, but a slim
one, as the authorities are very
particular not to let civilians see,
let alone participate in, the de
pressing handling of bloody and
shrieking wounded.
I stepped up to the officer who
was pleading with a sergeant to
find stretcher-bearers.
“Voila mos,.” I said.
Teds of the Loading.
Somebody found me a cap and
somebody else an old uniform,
and I quickly took my place on
an ambulance. A long ride
through the dark and we arrived
as the train was pulling up at
dhc little station'
The unloading began. I couldn’t
make you understand what a sight
it was.
First, out came a queer bundle
covered with canvas. He did not
groan. Everybody took off his
cap.
The next shrieked with pain. It
was half a man; the lower half
was missing.
Then came a long stream of
stretchers bearing one-legged
men; the left leg gone. They
were set in a row.
Sort Them Along Wall.
Now for tell ones with the right
eg gone.
They must be distributed side
)y-side with the former, so that
n placing the lot of ambulances,
a whole leg would be next the
wall and the wounds saved from
ubbing.
Then came one-armed men;
Tterwards, a few with shoulders
nissing.
I dont’ know how many, but in
lie flickering light, they kept
;oming and coming out of the
lingy train till I got tired of
:ounting, and so tired of carry
ing that I was afraid of dropping
ny end.
Other End Always Light
Big men took the head end of
he stretchers and little men the
foot end.
I was unluckily bigger than my
oartner, and, as the night wore
on, I became almost too tired to
:ontinue.
I found myself envying the Ut
ile Frenchman who carried with
nc and speculating on how light
must be his end, the foot end,1
ror the wounded had no feet and,
only one leg. It must have been
light.
A sergeant called us sharply to
I the other side of the hall for the
last installment.—The men with
no face.
Eyes, noses and jaws carried
away by fragments of shell, they
tnaed a weird array as they lay in
a row, each with a queer shaped
white mask where his features
ought to have been.
We removed them to the ambu
lances, and I watched a man with
no legs on his stretcher by the
roadside, who was trying to work
a mechanical cigar-lighter and1
complaining that it would not
"march.” |
We drove the rest of the night,
and when the last load was taken
out of the little pigeonholes of|
the ambulance I fell asleep on a)
stretcher-bearer's cot and dream
ed of a poor devil with a wound
through the chest that my partner
had left drop.
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DOCTORS MAKE !
THE DUMB SPEAK
Making the dumb to speak
through mental suggestion and I
the power of will is one of the
miracles almost daily being per
formed by Italian army surgeons.
The well substantiated stories of'
what these men are doing rival
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in the Book of Books. The story
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son, from the dead, contain little:
more to marvel at than these j
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1915
Hypnotism and mental sugges-;
tion are being successfully em- j
ployred by the surgeons of the
Italian army in helping soldiers
who have lost the power of speech
to recover that faculty. Experi
ments are also being made to see
if the method cannot be employed
h equal success on blind sol
diers and deaf men. These exper
iments apply only to those cases
where the nfvis of sight and
hearing have been shocked and
not destroyed
The first successful experiment
with dumb soldiers were made in
the military hospTtal at nncona
but have since been repeated at
Cava dei Tirreni and elsewhere.
Dr. Gustav Modena is the origin
ator of the method. In his first
successful application Dr. Mo
dena had for his subject the sol
diers Giuseppe Valeri and Naz
zareno Aquillini. Neither man
had spoken a word for six months.
The first day Dr. Modena subject
ed the men to an ‘electrical cur-,
rent and to the mental suggestion
that they must speak.
Twenty four hours were allow-;
ed to elapse that this suggestion
might work in their minds. The
second day the doctor again ap-1
plied the current and, ordering
the patient to look him squarely
in the eye, exerted all of his hyp
notic and will power in imposing
on his patient the command to
speak.
Almost instantly Valeri, the
first subject, began to mumble
inarticulate sounds. A little later
he formed the first two words
every child speaks—Mamma and
babbo (papa)—and finally began
speaking almost with the same
degree of facility he had enjoyed
previous to his injury at the front.]
Equal success was met with in'
the case of Aquillini, the second
patient The method now is gen
erally employed in Italy.
Experiments looking toward
'.he restoration of sight and hear
ing in the same way have not rnet!
with a full degree of success, but J
encouraging progress has been
made.—Ex.
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