Show FACE DEATH TO AID WOUNDED surgeons ambulance men and nurses display great bravery in work on the firing line one of the splendid pages of war s history will be written in letters of gold on the scroll of what physicians ambulance men and nurses have done aleut harold peat a canadian who has seen two years of service on the french front told audiences in indianapolis that per cent of the wounded men are saved and many of them are made so corn plemely fit that they can return to tho firing line it Is not alone because of the perfection of surgery that this result Is possible it Is more bc causo of the bravery and the sacrifice of surgeons and their helpers in the birly stages of the war when the dressing stations and the temporary hospitals were farther removed from the front and out of the range of enemy guns physicians observed that a large number of soldiers were dying who with immediate attention could have been saved many of them bled to death before they reached the dressing stations there was only one thing to be done the surgeons and their assistants guided only by a sense of the high duty of their calling did that thing they moved forward establishing tab lishing dressing stations in and immediately behind the lines and in some instances erecting their hospitals within range of the enemy fire |