A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . n. Evidently the Ger-mans found it too tough a job to break the next two months we nursed French soldiers,as French troops were fighting on that section of theFront. It becomes almost monotonous to tell youagain that all those hundreds and hundreds of menwe nursed were far spent—suffering from shockcollapse, excessive hemorrhage, broken to pieces,many mortally wounded, all in agony, sufferingfrom cold, hunger, exposure to winter weather, frostbite, and every evil that can bring strong men todeaths door. We had also a ne
A war nurse's diary : sketches from a Belgian field hospital . n. Evidently the Ger-mans found it too tough a job to break the next two months we nursed French soldiers,as French troops were fighting on that section of theFront. It becomes almost monotonous to tell youagain that all those hundreds and hundreds of menwe nursed were far spent—suffering from shockcollapse, excessive hemorrhage, broken to pieces,many mortally wounded, all in agony, sufferingfrom cold, hunger, exposure to winter weather, frostbite, and every evil that can bring strong men todeaths door. We had also a new trouble to con-tend with, gangrene had broken out, often of amalignant description. We isolated these andamputated limbs where possible to save them. Tetanus appeared, but we soon obtained serumsfrom England and gave all patients with woundscovering large surfaces a preventive large pieces of clothing were embedded in We had one wonderful case — a Majors — the surgeons cut outtwelve feet of intestines and he made an excellent recovery. Stretchers arrived constantly, borne by Red Cross orderlies FURNES 63 wounds, to say nothing of shrapnel and beneath one mans shoulder-blade we evenextracted a large brass time-fuse! We had onewonderful case of recovery in our large ward; anofficer, with the rank of Major, was brought in withhuge wounds in his abdomen, while his intestineswere absolutely riddled with shot. The surgeonscut out twelve feet of entrails, and he made an ex-cellent recovery! This was the more remarkableconsidering that all the patients surrounding himwere suffering from dirty and festering wounds,and at that time we had no means of sterilizing theward dressings. Later on we had large steamsterilizers in the theatre. CHAPTER X FIRING THE SOIXANTE-QUINZE I told you that in Furnes we nursed the remark needs qualifying. Not only did wenurse the French poilu, but amongst them wererepresentatives from all the French colonies,—bl
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