Show QUICK AID GIVEN WOUNDED Rapid Treatment After Battle and Methods Save New Cleansing i Lives of Many Soldiers Gilbert Barling 0 O. B B. a Col famous English surgeon rl who vho o is con con- suiting surgeon to the great base hospitals hos hos' at Rouen which accommodate the tine war 15 1000 patients says sass sa s 's that since began Immense strides have been made mado madee in e the surgery of the battlefield Two Improvements that may be noticed as having taken place since the outbreak of of hostilities writes a correspondent the New York Times are in connection with the rapid treatment of the wound wound- wounded ed after a big battle and the tine cleansing of wounds Five or ten miles behind the time fighting sufficient casualty clearing stations each holding ab about ut 1000 men men have have been organized to deal with all nil the casualties that may reasonably be e exo expected expected ex ex- petted s so o that once a man is s picked ed up by the stretcher bearers he Ire receives adequate treatment within a n very short time Here Hero also also is a special hospital tal perhaps of 50 beds for abdominal cases which are the most urgent In tho the old days such wounds because of the delay before they could be treated treated treat treat- ed cd and cleaned were generally considered considered consid consid- ered to be fatal but under the new new- conditions by which a n man so hit is placed In an ambulance and sent off oft Immediately if necessary without waiting for tor other wounded to be placed in with him the dangerous delay Is overcome and the wound kept aseptic and more amenable to treatment |