Show Bushnell Minimizes I Effects of War Warn WarBy By O. O 0 N. N MALMQUIST IAL j I At the tho foot toot of ot the Wasatch mountains south of Brigham City In a n peaceful spot which a short time ago was a n peach pen h hand and cherry orchard some of ot the drama dram dramatic dramatic tic and Important incidents of the war i v j 0 are taking place Tho The Is the U. U S. S Army's Immense Bushnell general hospital A self con community of ot more than 7 brick buildings with a normal capacity of ot 2000 beds and an nn emergency capacity of ot beds The hospital is more not not- notable notable notable able for the work It Is 15 doing to repair II I I or minimize the effects of war than for I Its size One of ot its major contributions to date Is tho building up of the most extensive experience In this thus country with the use of ot the new wonder drug penicillin Medical directors of the institution dur dur- during durIng during ing a recent tour of ot press representatives tives described the results of ot the treat treat- treatment treatment ment as dramatic In some types I of ot In lh Infections lh- lh and very encouraging in all tho cases for tor which the drug has been used I Colonel Robert M M. Hardaway commanding com com- commanding j manding officer and his professional I staff start are currently being allotted one- one I third of the army's supply of penicillin which is 15 not yet being produced in suf- suf sufficient I quantity to permit general use I Their TheIr primary Interest and hope Is to too find o In the drug a weapon to reduce the morbidity and mortality rate of ot bone infections a n vexing wartime problem of ot the medical profession To date their experience has been satisfactory this i type of case much more mono read read- readily fly ily to penicillin than any other known type of ot treatment j i A result which can properly be described as spectacular has been ob- ob obI obtained I tamed in the use of ot the drug to combat gonococcus infection gonorrhea Four- Four Fourteen teen Iteen I cases which failed t led to respond after atter an an average of ot days' days hospitalization and treatment with the sulfa drugs have I been treated with penicillin Within 36 hours after atter the treatment was started twelve of the cases were negative The was Increased and the treatment continued Within a week the thirteenth case was cured The fourteenth case Is still in doubt Typical cases In other types of ot infections i i Include an officer who came into tho the hospital with a n severe severo mastoid m In In- In I He was In Ina In a deep coma had a aI temperature of ot and had failed tailed to I respond t to the usual treatments The day after atter treatments were started he was conscious and his tem tem- temperature temI I was The next day his Ws 1 I temperature was normal and ho wanted II to get up and move around Corporal John Red Kariger of Her- Her HerI shey she Neb was shot through the right I o thigh by b a Japanese sniper on Guadal Guadal- I canal By the time he reached the hospi hospi- hospital hospital tal a severe Infection had developed at atthe atthe the fracture a huge abscess was draining i I poorly and he had lost weight to an j I alarming degree After Atter two weeks on i iI Ii I penicillin he ho was able to tolerate an an operation in which 21 pieces of ot dead I bone were removed He Is 15 now well on onI I II I the road to recovery Approximately third one-third of ot the hospi hospi- hospital hospital I tal capacity is 15 devoted to the division nervous and mental I cases The patients who come from I training camps and combat areas are s are I I unable to stand the stress of ot combat or the th sudden disruptions in their pat pat- pattern patI pattern I tern of ot living and blow up For the tho most part they are suffering from a aI psychoneurosis I which does not involve o I mental breakdown in the usual sense of that term After the acute stage has hasI I been passed they can converse con ration ration- rationally I ally and to a layman appear to be nor- nor norThe mal j The important question with with respect j I to this group Is ls- ls can is-can can an they be cured and i J ii JI i returned to normal life lite Lieutenant I I Colonel Olin B. B Chamberlain chief of ot i I the tho section thinks that a large majority lot of them can be if 1 the public doesn't 1 try to dispose of ot them by voting pen pen- sins Pensions he believes is a sure I j road to widespread cad compensation neurosis I His hope Is that public opinion will realize that pensions are arc not a a. solution to the problem that communities will recognize now their responsibility to these men that steps will be taken to help them find Ind economic Independence In Jobs assist them to regain confidence confidence confidence dence and a sense of ot security and to tide them over economic humps The physical layout of the hospital which was built In little more than six months dwarfs all other oUter Institutions I of ot this type In the state and is one of ot oth the h Army's large general hospitals The Tho connected with cov cov- covered covI covered covered I ered walkways so 80 that patients can go goto goto I Ito to one of or the tout lout mess halls the re recreation re- re recreation recreation 1 creation rooms the post exchange the the library and other facilities without being exposed to the weather It is virtually a n self sufficient community having its own power plant sewage disposal plant Incinerator Ice plant bakery chapel postoffice railroad station utility shops warehouses cold storage facilities and laundry Equipment throughout Is the best ob ob- ob But the chief pride of or Colonel Hard lIard- Hardaway Hardaway away Is not the physical 21 plant but the professional lonai staff the most vital cle de- dement clement clement ment of or a good hospital The physicians all of whom have entered the war for tho duration were special special- fists In hi their respective communities or members of or medical me college faculties temporarily called upon to make large financial sacrifices they are ob- ob obtaining a wealth of ot experience to com com- for tor that And they are as In Intensely In- In Intensely intensely tensely Interested in and as attentive to j j their work as if it they were making many manyI j I I times an army officers pay In the most most exacting private practice The tour of ot the hospital was one of ot a a. I series to the Army Service Forces in- in InI in hi this area sponsored by the tho I Ninth Service Command Tho The visits were personally directed by Major A. A E. E E Gil Gil- Gilbert Gilbert I bert Ninth Servi 3 Command Public I Relations officer |