Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-10-06 | Page 19 | Speed Saves Yanks' Lives

SPEED SAVES YANKS YANKS' LIVES I Surgical Units With i l Modern l Equipment Keep V Wounded Wound Wound- alluded ed From Death l i With the Iho American Forces In Franco France Oct B 6 Within forty minutes after atter ar arriving arriving ar- ar riving at an advance station tho the firing line some mobile operating units attached attached el to the American army are ready eady to wounded soldiers for tor major operations Ordinarily a unit Is stationed near a baso hospital to await call from Crom near th the tho firing tirIng lino It consists con con- mists elsts of or two sixty officers fifty nurses and nearly 00 enlisted men and Is composed composed composed com com- posed of ot five sections each of or which Is a complete completo operating group with a n chief surgeon and an assistant Students Students Students Stu Stu- dents from irom the University of ot Cleveland who were trained at Allentown Pa Pl Compose the majority of ot the tho enlisted personnel Having arrived behind tho the firing line tho the unit unloads Its equipment and arranges beds under canvas for wounded wound wound- ed men mon and provides pro all accessories of ot ofa ofa ota a modern hospital for Immediate use The Tho operating pavilion Is a tent erected ov over r a metal floor and the outfit includes Includes in includes In- In X-ra X ray X-ray plants nn and sterilizing sterilizing- ap ap- ap- ap Electricity for forr light and for tor operation of ot tho the X-ray X outfit Is supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied by a motor and dynamo carried on a truck By Dy these advanced ad methods surgeons aro are saving human lives 11 tOda today In cases where a few tow years ago the patient would have havo been beon counted as mortally wounded This results partly from the fact tact that with modern equipment and swift movement mo tho the most difficult and delicate operation may bo be performed oftentimes within sound of ot tho big guns along the lino line of or battle Some of ot the known best-known surgeons In inthe tho the United States are aro engaged In this work and dally and nightly during battles battles battles bat bat- are ale performing operations which would have o been Impossible in previous wars