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I HOW EUROPEAN BATTLE f | AFFECTS SOLDIERS. |' Many facts of extraordinary in- j j terest were observed by Dr Crile i during the fighting and are describ- ? ed by him in his book in a manner which would only be possible to a , very skilful and scientific surgeon, j For instance,he tells how and why , men slept on the march and even ( when severely wounded. He tells us f how and why men sustained terrible j wounds without feeling any pain and ] in some cases without being con- j scious of it. i " ' fKa nrrootost' VP. remaps uuc ui mk .. , treats in history was that of one of , the allied armies from Mons to the , Marne. After a sustained and heavy action at Mons, being overpowered j by the enemy, the French and British armies began their retirement, ( which continued for nine days and , nights. One hundred and eight} , miles of marching, without making j camp,was accomplished in that great < retreat,in which the pace was set by j the enemy. Only rarely were sufficiently long halts made for the men ] to catch a few moments of rest. \ Food and water were scarce and ir- j regularly supplied. j "It has been shown," says Dr ( Crile,-"that animals subjected to the , most favorable conditions,kept from exertion or worry, supplied with , plenty of food and in good hygienic surroundings, do not survive longer j than from fiye to eight days without , sleep. The mere maintenance of the j conscious state is at the expense of the brain,the adrenals and the liver. , And these changes are identical with the changes in these organs wrought { by exertion, infection and emotion, j The changes wrought by these activators can be repaired only during , sleep. Sleep, therefore, is as essential as food and air. In this retreat , from Mons to the Marne we have an extraordinary human experiment in which several hundreds of thousands of men secured but little sleep dur- , ing nine days, and in addition made forced marches and fought one of the greatest battles in history." There is no reason to be! ieve that man could live nine days without sleeping, and these soldiers solved the problem by sleeping while they , marched. Sheer fatigue slowed down their pace to a rate that would pet- , mit them to sleep while walking. , When they halted, they fell asleep. ( They slept in water and also on rough ground, when suffering the pangs of i hunger and of thirst, and even when severely wounded. They passed through villages , asleep. When sleep deepened and they began to reel they were awak- , ened by their comrades. They some- j times fell down asleep in water, on j stones, in brush, or in the middle of the road, as if they had suddenly j fallen in death. Any man who ' dropped out of the ranks was lost to < the army,for no matter on what pre- { text he fell out,sleep conquered him \ and the enemy captured him in that \ condition. That artillerymen slept { on horseback is shown by the fact \ that every man lost his cap. \ Dr Gros, of the American Ambu- j lance, who went to the battlefield of ( the Marne, in the rear of the re- , treating French army, to collect ( wounded, gives some extraordinary j incidents concerning the power of \ sleep. When the ambulances arrived , " VI no 11V of mirlnirrV.f fftnnH . OW iUVOUA HV illlviui^Kw ?*?WJ _ v a the town in utter darkness. Not a sound was heard in the street, not a light was seen. The only living things were hundreds of cats. The 1 surgeons called, they shouted, they 1 tried for half an hour, in vain, to , arouse some one. At last they sue- . ceeded in awakening the mayor, tc whom they said: j ? "Can you tell us in what village < we shall find the wounded? We ' were told that there were many j here." The mayor replied: "The < village is full of wounded. I will 1 show you." With the aid of a flickering lamp i the doctors threaded their way ; through dark streets, through a dilapidated school building; not a light, 1 not a sound! There was the stillness of death! They rapped louder but there was no response! Opening the ioor.they found the building packed with wounded?over 500?with all kinds of wounds. "Some were dying, some dead,but everyone was in deep sleep," writes Dr Crile. "Bleeding, yet asleep; legs shattered, yet asleep; abdomen and chest torn wide open,yet asleep. They were lying on the hard floor or jn bits of straw. Not a groan, not a motion,not a complaint?only sleep!" It is interesting to know that these sleeping soldiers usually dream. The iream is always the same, always ol the enemy. It is never a pleasant pastoral dream or a dream of home, but a dream of the charge,the bursting shell, of the bayonet thrust. Again and again a badly wounded soldier in the hospital would spring up in his sleep with a battle cry and reach for his rifle. Concerning pain, Dr Crile observes the following conditions: 1. In the midst of a furious iharge the soldier feels no pain if svounded, and sore and bleeding feet are unnoticed. In the overwhelming excitement of battle he may be shot, stabbed or crushed without feeling pain. 2. The blow of a high-velocity bullet or projectile, unaccompanied by the heat of battle, causes no impact or pain, though there may be a burning sensation at the point of entrance, and the soldier may feel 13 if he had been jarred or struck. Frequently he first learns of his wound from a comrade. 3. In the state of complete exhaustion, in which loss of sleep is the chief factor, pain is quite abolished. 4. Under heavy emotion pain is greatly diminished, even prevented, A remarkable example of the absence of pain mentioned by Dr Crile is that of a young British sergeant who, in a severe engagement, while standing near a battery, had his leg partially cut off by a shell that failed to explode. He felt no pain, merely a jar, and discoyered his injury only when his leg failed to support him. He hopped to a nearb> stack of grain and lay down behind it, Here he took out his dull, onebladed knife, and completed the amrmtntinn fpplinc no nain in makinc the division. An ambulance squad started for him, but immediately the enemy fired upon them, killing one. The fire becoming more intense, the sergeant rolled over and over into a nearby ravine. The enemy advanced so fast that in his excitement he struggled up, and forgetting that his leg was gone, tl.if7 his weight on the stump. Ever then, however, he felt no pain. Eor several hours he lay there without pain, until after the danger had passed, and he was removed by the 3tretcher squad. Then pain took possession of its normal channel and his suffering began. Dr Crile's explanation of the absence of pain in such cases is this: rhe stimulus of the sight of the ?nemy is so intense that no other stimulus can obtain possession of the final common path of the brain? die path of action. Pain is inevitibly associated with muscular action; :hat is, an action of the muscles due x> the injury must begin befoie the yain is felt. Therefore, if a bullet )r bayonet wound is inflicted at the noment when this injury cannot >btain possession of the path of the )rain, it can excite no muscular ac;ion and consequently no pain. Even vhere other stimulus do not possess Are You Qetti iVe pay highest prices, send you utely square deal. We hold oui offer. We do not charge any G Large No. Opossum |$ .65 to $ Coon 1.50 to Drey Fox 1.50 to MinK - 2.25 to J Dtter? 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