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Show FACE DEATH TO AID WOUNDED Surgeons, Ambulance Men and Nurai 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 per cent of the wounded men are saved, and many of them are made so completely com-pletely fit that they caa return to the firing line. It Is not alone because ot the perfection of surgery that this result re-sult Is possible. It is more because of the bravery and the sacrifice ot 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 then 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 es-tablishing dressing stations in and immediately im-mediately behind the lines and in some instances erecting their hospitals w In' range of the enemy fire. |