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Show Bushnell Minimize s Effects j Of This Global Warfare Huge Army Hospital Appeare Where Peach And Cherry Archards Once Thrived Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of four articles written by special writers for the Utah State Press Associa. tion on army and navy installations instal-lations in Utah. O. N. Malm-qiiist, Malm-qiiist, of the" Salt Lake Tribune staff, is author of the first story on the Bushnell General hospital hos-pital at Brigham City. At the foot of the Wasatch mountains south of Brigham City, in a peaceful spot which a short time ago was a peach and cherry orchard, some of the dramatic and important incidents of the war are taking place. The locale is the U'. S. Army's immense Bushnessl general hospl-talfl. hospl-talfl. A self-contained "community" "communi-ty" of more than 7 brick buildings build-ings with a normal capacity of 2,000 beds and an emergency capacity ca-pacity of 4,000 beds. The hospital is more notable for the work it is doing to repair or minimize the I effects of war than for its size. One of its major contributions to date is the building up of the most extensive experience 'in this county with the use of the new wonder drug, penicillin. Medical directors of the institution, during a recent tour of press representatives, representa-tives, described the results of the treatment as dramatic in some types of infections and very encouraging en-couraging in all the cases for which the drug has been sued. Colonel Robert M. Hardaway, I commanding officer, and his pro. fessional staff, are currently being allotted one.third of the army's supply of penicillin, which is not yet being produced in sufficient quantity to (permit general use. Their primary interest and hope is to find in the drug a weapon I to reduce the morbidity and mor tality rate of bone infections, a vexing wartime problem of the medical profession. To date their experience has been satisfactory, this type of case responding much more readily to penicillin than any other known type of treatment. A result which can properly be described as spectacular has been obtained in the use of the drug to combat gonococcus infection (gonorrhea). (gon-orrhea). Fourteen cases which failed to respond after an average of 52.8 days' hospitalization and treatment with the sulfa drugs, have been treated with penicillin. Within 36 hours after the treatment treat-ment was started twelve of the cases were negative. The dosage was increased and the treatment continued. Within a week the thirteenth thir-teenth case was cured. The fourteenth four-teenth case is still in doubt. Typical cases in other types of infections include an officer who came into the hospital with a severe se-vere mastoid infection. He was in a deep coma, had a temperature of 105, and had failed to respond to the usual treatments. The day after penicillian treatments were started he was conscious and his : temperature was 102. The next day his temperature was normal and he wanted to get up and move around. Corporal John (Red) Kariger of Hershey, Neb., was shot through the right thigh by a Japanese sniper sni-per on Guadalcanal. By the time he reached' the hospital a severe infection had developed at the fracture, a huge abscess was draining poorly and he had lost weight to an alarming degree. After two weeks on penicillin he was able to tolerate an operation in which 21 pieces of dead bone were removed. He is now well on the road to recovery. I Annrnvi'malnlu nno-tViiVH xf th |