Show AMPUTATINS ARt AVOIDED S I 3101D I MODERN SURGERY LE3ENS THE I HORRORS OF WAS There Will Be No Such Permanent Disfigurements As Occurred Thirty Years Ago Wounded Taken North Washington June Surgeon General Gen-eral Van Reipen of the navy is back from a trip from New York where he inspected the naval ambulance ship the Solace and saw the sick and S wounded brought up from Admiral Sampsons fleet 5 in all The wounded wound-ed include those who participated in the engagements at Cardenas Cienfue gos and Matanzas The men are doing do-ing well and there will be no fatalities resulting One of the men will lose an arm All the other patients will be more fortunate Surgical science has made such great advances since the civil war that there will be no such great loss of limbs and other permanent disfigurements as occurred oc-curred 30 years ago One of the men brought up on the Solace had his thigh bone shattered by a piece of Spanish shell The shell went into the fleshy part of the thigh crushing the bone to splinters and emercing on the other side of the legIt leg-It made a gaping wound completely through the leg with the thigh bone severed During the civil war such a wound would have necessitated amou tation of the leg near the hip But under the present methods of antiseptic antisep-tic treatment amputation was not necessary in this case The treatment has already shown that the limb will be saved although i maybe a trifle shorter than before Not only is amputation am-putation avoided but the present methods meth-ods of treatment do away with much of the intense suffering the soldier of the civil war had to pads throntrh Durinc the civil war our sick and wounded were kept in hospitals at the mouth of the Mississippi river at Key West and at other points jrsar the scene of action The intense heat of the south added to the distress of the wounded largely increasing the death rate Dr Van Reipen decided unon anew I a-new policy in the present war He intends in-tends to remove all the sick and wounded to the north the Solace mak maI ing trips back and forth between the fleet and northern ports The Solace arrived at the Brooklyn navy yard last Sunday and transferred her 54 patients to the naval hospital at Brooklyn She sailed at 4 oclock Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon to rejoin Admiral Sampsons fleet and take away such I of the other sick and wounded as maybe may-be there Dr Van Reipen sent aboard 1000 worth of delicacies contributed by private rate organizations and parties and also gave the chief surgeon of the ship 500 for further use in this line This is In addition to the substantials on board |