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Show SACRIFICE MUCH FOR DElCflf S CAUSE Utah and Idaho National Army Soldiers Give Up Freely. RISK ALL FOR NATION Splendid Specimens of American Manhood Seen in Training Camp. Special to The Thbune. ('AMI3 T,KVS, Tacoina, Dec. 1. Many Utah and Idaho national army men at Camp Lewis sacrificed a great leal when tiicy left civil life to enter training for overseas service. They Ici't fine pot.ii ions paying good salaries. They left colleges and universities. They left professional piactices they had just worked up to a paying basis. They and theirs sacrificed in many ays. But even thouoh many of the men will he allf'd upon to risk their live? on the battlefield, and it is almost certain that many wilt fall, they will bo paid in a way which cannot bo liteasu red iu dollars dol-lars and cents. They will be put io as nearly perrV-t lieallh as lies in the power or' money and science. And the man who has his health has untold riches. I iM-le Sam has displayed so hindly a -nivit in looking after the welfare of his soldiers at Chiii Lewis that, viewed from a humanitarian standpoint, hp has proven a blessing to thousands of mn. but. be this as it may, just viewed trum a practii-al anle his "work along health lines has been justified by result re-sult s. amp Lewis officers realize that they it pt have a healthy, virile force of li;:htinq men. They realise that an army i f ck in o ! i is no army at all. And 'th thnm to think is to act. so eery rti'orl is brine made to not only guard ; the health of the men, but to correct ;"v physical shortcomings. Surrender Private Practice. Some medical and dental officers c uj lV:r jM-uCtices a;'! as medi.-al T-ei vp offi'-er came to Camp Lewi , ia cntra.Lre in this work. A number are; Mtachd to each rsiment. where they! L'n e p t tent ion to the sn srhtest ailments -Mid dn preventive work, but the ma joiitv of them arc in the bi base hos--.'ital. an institution sn l?.rre tliat noth-i noth-i ng short of an epidemic sweeni nc hi nuL'h the tamp coi'ld fill it to ca- pn-dtv. U is said the "I'niied States army learned a lesson during the ypani-di-T-e5(-an war. w'nen many soldiers died , of typhoid fever in Florida. At anv rut', everv prc-antion against typhoid ; nd i.aratyphoid fever has been taken i-v administering' vaccine to all the men The soldiers aiso have been vaccinate! i-ainst smallpox. The base hospital is a bi institution H all it- wards were placed end to end fhey would form a continuous building j-ontethine; like two miles in length. Thr n-ards are well coptrn-ted. ventilated, lighted and heated and are equipped with t!ie most modern hospital and stir-, deal furnishings aod instruments kown to scb-m-e. .V eorps of highly trained doctors. deutist, nnrr-es and hospital and am- ; bulance unit men are on duty there. j lesiite the laxity of many exemption I iioards in the western depart rnent in , sending men phv-sically unfit for mill- ary service to the camp, the general health of the men ha- been good. This has left the medical men free to per- form the gigantic tak of examining ap- ; proimatelv 4t''ii men sent to the cantonment. can-tonment. 'More than -Vjort, or a little; more than U lr '-cut of the men. have! been discharged because of physical shortcomings. More rejections will fob i low as the result of a second and more !' searching examination now in progress. I Re-examinations Progress. ! This bi task of re-examining all the men of the Xinety-first division is ex- ; pec ted to consumo a month. Three boarda are eonduecintr the work the neuro-psychiatric commission, the tuberculosis tuber-culosis commission and the cardio-vas-culai- commission. The first has to deal with mental and nervous disorders, the I second with tubercular troubles and the third with blood and other disorders. A'o operations arc performed at the I ba.se hospital which will not result in I making better men and therefore better j soldiers. Daily operations for appendi- , citis, for removals of bone growths and of a corrective naturo are beinj undergone under-gone voluntarily by the soldiers. There are many simple ailments anil physical defects which slight operations can eliminate, and so eager are the men to remain in training; at the camp that they willingly undergo operations to in a Ite them fit. There are even those-who those-who are not willing, but nevertheless they are operated on if the officers are convinced that there is no good reason why the men should not continue in the national army. Officer scientists at the base hospital have found a method whereby they can determine whether fellows in the service are slackers or real men. It is called the X-ray method. Ju applying this test to the men the officers are using $15,000 worth of scientific sci-entific equipment, the time of two X-ray specialists and thirteen other picked men of the national army. There is a satisfying majority of men at the camp who believe that this is a righteous war, in which everv American must answer tho call to the colors. There are others who arc not so patriotic patri-otic and who see wonderful opportunities opportuni-ties in the positions left open by their comrades who are in the army. The men of this latter class tell hard-luck st ories to hospital officers in t he hope of being exempted from duty. Kvery man who tells this kind of a story is considered guilty until the X-ray proves that it is true. The law of the courts is just reversed. If defects de-fects are found, in most cases, the men may choose between making such defects de-fects grouuds for exemption claims or they may submit to corrective operations. opera-tions. Many have chosen the latter course. Negro National Army. A negro national army man came to the X-ray rooms so sick he staggered. Ue told the officers he had been troubled trou-bled with a mastoid growth for years. The only relief he had over obtained, he said, was from a Chinese physician in San Francisco who, in exchange for had given him a bottle of medicine. The veilow medicine made him feel better bet-ter immediately, he said. The X-ray was turned upon the unfortunate un-fortunate man, but no mastoid growth was found. The colored man was surprised sur-prised and at first refused to believe the plates, but when convinced that ho was perl'ci-tlv normal rallied to the occasion with true army spirit. " Well, I sut "nly do feel bettah. there ain't no doubt about that, ,T he remarked. re-marked. And with that the man who staegered into the hospital marched gaify out and to his quarters. Stomach investigation was found nec-essarv nec-essarv for another black-faced soldier. In order to have the stomach clearly brought out by the X-ray a preparation prepara-tion of mucilage and barium sulphate was given to the patient. This mixture, mix-ture, abominable to the taste and smell, has no action in the stomach. Its sole purj ose is to act as a medium whereby the organs are more definitely distin-guihed. distin-guihed. The colored man apparently failed to understand the -purpo-e of the mixture, for a few days after his examination he returned with the request that the whole performance be repeated, lie explained that the "dose"' he had taken had c-r-tainlr improved his health and that he wanted more. The X-ray department of the hospital has records and plate of IOmO examinations examina-tions to show for its work duriuff the pat month. In private practice it is seldom that as manv as ten X-ray examinations exam-inations are made in a day. Dr. Y. K. Diemer. who is in charge of the work, is doing a $1. "3,000 a month business and he gets the comparativelv small salarv of a tirnt lieutenant. He trave up a big practice at Hot Spring-, Ark., to enter the armv. Even. evening base hospital physicians physi-cians meet to hear papers and addressee. The subjects deal with special war or trench diseases or on the latest research in some lino with which the doe ton mav come in contact in their army work. Location of Bullets. Training in the location of bullets H one of the interesting lines of the officers offi-cers ' work. To make them expert in finding bullets and extracting them with the least pain the surgeons practice on naraffine models. They use X-rays to I locate the foreign subrtance and then, j prohinc in the senseies, waxy mas, j oring them to the surface. The officers j have become- so expert in this work that ; they can locate the leaden bodies b'V- j era) inches beneath the surfaco within ; a millimeter. j The officers have at their disposal no beautifully white and blackened rooms, , with comfortable and expensive furni- , ture. They have no spotlesfl mirpieal ; gowns to awe and dazz. e. They nave ; merely the frame building, comfort- j able, though far from palatial or coin parable to the nverago hospital. Hut j f.hev do have equipment. j Thov have three X-ray machine. An : ultra-violet litrht ma- hine, found u-pful , in dealing with slun disea", one of their prized possessions. Materials and aide to develop the exposures, ami ta- j blep, 'diairs and filing cabinets complete j the X-ray equipment, probably doi ng tho largest business of the kind in the; United States. t ! This equipment will stay at Camp Lewis, although th officers of the j NifK-tv-first division will go to Fran'"'. ! There' duplicate equipment arranged for I fb Id use will be ready for them. ', Statisties from Kuropo show that, pro- j portio-nally, medical offieors havo as 1 high mortality as any department of tho armv. This is because, tho Germans make a flperia! effort to destroy the hopplt-nh-, j which, in many raws, are juat behind the front, line trenches. j |