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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 this war's history will be written in letters of gold on the scroll of what physicians, physi-cians, ambulance men and nurses have done. Lieut. Harold Peat, a Canadian Cana-dian who has seen two years of service serv-ice on the French front, told audiences au-diences in Indianapolis that 97 per cent of the wounded men are saved, and many of them are made so completely com-pletely fit that they can return to the firing line. It is not alone because of the perfection of surgery that this result re-sult is possible. It Is more because of the bravery and the sacrifice of surgeons sur-geons and their helpers. In the early stages of the war, when the dressing stations and the temporary tempo-rary 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 falling, did that thing. They moved forward, establishing es-tablishing dressing stations In and Immediately Im-mediately behind the Jines and in some instances erecting thelj hospitals with-'n with-'n range of the enemy fire. |