BAGPIPE MEDICINE

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 12

BAGPIPE MEDICINE

TREATMENT FOR WOUNDED SCOTS. The rousing skirl of the bagpipes waa heard by Scottish soldiers "at the Endellstreet Military Hospital, London, one day last month. Like the children enchanted by the GPied Piper, the wounded men crept from their beds and crowded to the windows. The bagpipes, even away from their native hills, are the strong wine of music, and as Pipe-Major Snjith, of the Highland Corporation of London, marched with a glorious swing in his tartan kilt, the pale faces at the windows He up and a cheer broke out. "Miss Forbes, at whose invitation I went to the hospital, had not told the patients I was coming," said Pipe-Major Smith. "She told me there were several men from different Highland regiments in the hospital, so as a bit of a surprise I played their regimental tunes. I gave them 'The Campbells are Coming,' the 42nd March, the Seaforth March ('Cabar Feidh'), and the Gordon Highlanders' tune, 'Cock o' the North.' "When I had finished a lady doctor came to me and said, 'What a treat that was. Some of the patients who haven't been out of bed for days insisted on getting up and going to the windows to hear you better.' "