The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 30, 1915, Page TWELVE, Image 8
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.
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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 .
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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
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the path of the brain the shock of
the wound may be too great to be
perceived. Too bright a light blinds;
: too loud a noise deafens,
i Dr Crile's observations on the fate
of the wounded are interesting, and
!' show that their chances of relief are
'small. The Red Cross, he says, has
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tection, for ambulances and hospitals
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first week of the war ranked with
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Dr Crile, "in which an officer who
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: advance trenches in the Argonne,
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