The Archive · 1906

Wounded Men in the Recent War

19th Aprit Iris now some y we wrote for these columns an article on " Wounded men in the Coming War," that war which, though ex-pested, has never yet occurred, the great European war, In it we pointed out what were then the army, and it was seen thad that time it was thoughts table that wounded men would have to take their chance. There would be too many of them foranybody to think of, much less to attend to.

Since then the great Russo-japanese war has come and gone, a marvel in ite progress, a wonder ab its close, and now a subject of study the world over, Soldiers, sailors, commissariat officials, and doctors are busy examining into the system which produced such results, That they will find flaws is certain, Some have already been pointed out. There are spots on the sun itself, and the Land of the Rising Sun can hardly hope to escape its share. But, so far, we have heard of no shortcoming discovered by either nurse or doctor, and it is plain from the statistics published that, in the present condition of medical knowledge and

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