In the wards, principally filled with sufferers from castro-enteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines), malaria, dysentery, heat prostration, and sunstroke, the same skilled battle was being fought. Less spectacular, to be sure, is the average case, but nevertheless, just as packed with fear and hope to the patient, just as fraught with drama to the on-looker.
This baby is very, very sick," he said. "Yesterday he was better. He had a relapse. It is three days since he was brought in with an intestinal complaint. and heat pro: stration. His lungs are not very good. These are very poor people who have to live in such crowded quarters—in low rooms where the air is bad—where the heat is terrible for them—" A sigh escaped him as he moved to another bed where a father sat. watching his son, less than a year old.
The man leaped to his feet and bowed clumsily. His son was sleeping peaceably enough, naturally at the 4th Regiment, US.
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