AMONG THE WOUNDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

AMONG THE WOUNDED.

WORK OF THE SURGEONS.

A newspaper correspondent paid a visit to the English Red Cross hospital in Paris, which has been established at the Hotel Majestic, not very far from the Flaco de I'Etoile. There was but one English soldier in the ward, a man belonging to the Oxford Light Infantry—all the others were either French or German. Curiously enough, it happened that the Germans were suffering from much more serious wounds than the Frenchmen. A number of serious operations—such a trephining—have been carried out most successfully in' the surgical theatre. .It was also mentioned that one man, who had been so seriously hurt in the chest by a shell that his heart could literally be seen beating under only a. thin tissue of flesh, was going on quite nicely, and was about as cheery as anybody in the. ward. I in connection with the treatment of the wounded in war, a communication which is certain to arouse interest, in medical cricks was made at the Academy of I Sciences, in Paris. A remarkable scries I of radiographic pictures of wounds reI reived in war were exhibited, which had i been obtained by a new process, with per- ; feet clearness, "by ,M. Charles Yaillant, ; head of the radiographic laboratory at the famous Lanboisii-ie Hospital. The prin- ' cipaj feat mo of the in\entinn is the fact that the pit Lures are obtained, not on sensitised class plates, but directlv on "papier an pelatmo." The advantages of this new method, it is claimed, will be , particularly appreciated in connection with field ambulance work. The gelatine papers, it is said, are only one-thirtieth of the weight and only one-third of the co:.l of the photographic glass plat*. Not only is there this great saving in weight —a most important consideration where tiansnfwt is concerned—but by the new method the picture it produced 'in one process, instead nl in two—first, the photographing, and afterwards the printing— 1 as hitherto.