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Show QUICK AID GIVEN WOUNDED Rapid Treatment After Battle New Cleansing Methods Sav I Lives of Many Soldiers. ' Lieut. Col. Gilbert Barling, c. famous English surgeon who ls suiting surgeon to the great base lios! pitals at liouen, which accommodm, 15,000 patients, Bays that since the win began Immense strides have been muds In the surgery of the battlefield. To Improvements that may be noticed ai having taken place since the outbreak of hostilities, writes a correspondent of the New York Times, are in connection with the rapid treatment of the wound, ed after a big bnttle and the cleanslnj of wounds. Five or ten miles behind the flglitlnj sufficient casualty clearing stations-each stations-each holding about 1,000 men huvs been organized to deal with all the casualties that may reasonably be ei- pected, so that once a man is picked im i ii . ..u i. . by the stretcher bearers he receives adequate treatment within a very short time. Here also is a special hospital perhaps of 50 beds, for abdominal cases, which are the most urgent. In the old days such wounds, becansi of the delay before they could be treated treat-ed and cleaned, were generally considered consid-ered to be fatal ; but under the am conditions, by which a man so hit la placed In an ambulance and sent oS immediately, if necessary, without waiting for other wounded to be placed in with him, the dangerous delay la overcome, and the wound kept asepflo and more amenable to treatment |