MAN WITH 65 WOUNDS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 47, 18 June 1915, Page 5

MAN WITH 65 WOUNDS.

PATIENTS WHO SLEEP FOR DAYS BEFORE TREATMENT.

The German "Medical Weekly" gives partiulcars of the case of a Landwehr private who was picked up by the Gelman ambulance corps on September- 9. He had no fewer than 47 superficial wounds and in his body 18, for the most part caused by shrapnel bullets. _ "On the day he was brought in, the paper savs, "the surgeons refiaiiiod from changing the bandages, and simply put the man to bed, giving him a morphia injection. Experience h.is shown that after the bodily exertions demanded of them and the often org journey to the base hospital, this is lho most important thing. Many sleep rot several days- . . In this ease, however, an examinr;».'>/l was made on the following day, w.'ori H was found that Mie bones of Lie .c-:t shin, left thigh, and left arm line a.I been shattered, and lett eye shot aw a - There was also a shot in the lett hn«ojoint and a wound in the left upper '""Apart fro mthe amputation of the lt f leg below the knee and the removal of the left ovo in order to avert threatened complications, all the wounds were dealt with on strictly conservative lines. Only two of the shrapnel bullets weie removed, the experience of recent having been to the t'fTeet that oeiy shot wound should as far as possible be left untouched."

T.ECITTUNT. F.THFLINDA

It was decided that Mr. U right " administer a stern lecture to His fo r-vear-old daughter, Kthelmda. To 1 tk <dii lux! ii:ui - f ht> + ; '''Li ;,,i „nt seen, to apprec.a e the Mr. Wright reluctantly undeitook a 'liedialed to make the heartache and to see tlio doar <• uld cv , ~„t I U . forced himself to speak >id ollsiv and severely. He recounted h< > misdeeds, and explained tho why and wherefore of his stern rebuke. -Mis. Wright sat hy. looking duly impi t - Finallv Mi "Wright paused for l.uaJi, ~„d also to hear the small cu pnt acknowledge her error. Iho «*nldmg w never continued. Flhelinda u • « '■ice U"imin" with admiration to lie. mother. aiufsaid. innocently- - Isn't papa interesting.

NATI'KAIdSKn

The following story concerns j Germans in Knglmd. . 1 hey want dto ; | take out naturalisation pape s alas' u hen til. \v came to count It. " j 11 ,lr collect 'V" wealt u w >s i money up then (o.mi. Vlll „w,w on.v iust sufficient to pay th. < \ ; of on, of then. Ivetu- natura ~,• So l h ev decided In In- tor u. II" . took :•! 1 the cavil, and went on nH wa , | (*( ... ii,., other two •.•auiP. Some time at' 1 i.. , • i across him. "Hullo, l-ntz. sai I " of them, "did vou your natui, isdirty Germans," answered I'ritz contemptuously ns hc paliSo ' l on '