USE OF WHISKEY
CHICAGO, April 12.—Nothing is
too good for United States soldiers
sent to army hospitals for treatment,
according to Major \V. A. Shields, in
charge of the army’s central depart
ment medical supply depot here, who
has just given the Associated Press a
detailed account of the methods em
ployed in safeguarding the health of
the men in khaki.
Major Shields said that medical of
ficers at the various army hospitals
have only to ask for what they want
for the treatment of the men and It
goes to them.
“An officer at Fort Sheridan re
cently asked for a special type of op
erating table,” said Major Shields. “It
was not a standard table and is used
only rarely. Although it had to be
made to order and cost considerably
more than the ordinary table, it was
rushed at once to the hospital.
Many army surgeons, he stated, ask
for certain uncommon instruments,
sometimes for use In one particular
case only, yet the medical supply of
ficers spare no efforts to obtain them.
Carrying out the departmental pol
icy of thoroughness in the treatment
of the men, only the most sanitary,
most modern and most efficient equip
ment is sent out. This rule applies
to everything, from the furniture used
in the institutions to the dishes from
which the patients eat. Major Shields
said that all hospitals are supplied
with high-grade silver-plated knives,
forks and spoons, fine quality linens,
the best food, sleeping quarters as
pleiaRant and convenient as money
can provide, and that everything else
is on the same high plane.
Although the depot has to furnish
no supplies for wounded men as yet,
The hospitals of the central depart
ment have received more than 0,000,
000 feet of cloth bandages—enough to
extend from New York to the Texas
coast. When the American forces are
actually engaged in trench warfare in
any considerable numbers, and
wounded men begin to pour into
American hospitals, Major Shields
said, it is probable that the medical
supply depot will be overtaxed to sup
ply needed bandages. Because of thi3
fact officials are Investigating paper
bandages, which are said to be equally
as serviceable as the kind now In
general use. Paper bandages have
been in use in Germany ror some time
almost exclusively, owing to the in
ability of that country to get ma
terial for cloth bandages.
Major Shields expressed confi
dence that the department will not
be embarrassd because of the scarcity!
of any needed drug or medicine used!
at army hospitals. German drugs
have been duplicated by American
medical investigators, with the result
that the department Is adequately
equipped to care for its men, either
wounded or ill.
Practically no whisky is used in
army hospitals, Major Shields said.
Its use, he declared, is being discour
aged because the reaction it causes
makes its use as a stimulant unde
sirable, according to the medical of
ficer. He said, however, that a small
quantity of whisky is carried at the
depot and will be supplied should any
medical officer call for it. In this con
nection Major Shields spoke of the
Vera Cruz expedition, in 1914, when
he acted as medical supply officer
for General Funston.
“During the month that we were
there,” he said, “I issued just one
quart of . whisky.”
On the other hand, alcohol is one
of the most widely-used medical sup
plies kept at the depot. It is shipped
to cantonment camps in fifty-gallon
drums and is, used in great quantities
for baths and in rubbing.
Electricity is being made to do its
share in the care of the soldiers.
Many modern hospital appliances are
operated by electricity, in addition to
the part it is playing in the treat
ment of tuberculosis. X-ray photo
graphs of lungs of soldiers suspected
of being tubercular are taken at the
rate of fifty a day at each of the can
tonment hospitals. By the use of
these “lung pictures” the treatment
of tuberculosis has been greatly sim
plified. Fifty thousand X-ray plates
have been used at the central depart
ment camps in the pasv two months,
Major Shields said.
To mend fractured limbs, splints in
various sizes, made of steel, tin or
wood, are carried at the depot for
shipment to hospitals as needed. At
each hospital there is a carpenter who
adapts the splint to the individual
need of the patient.
The medical supply depot at Chi
cago supplies hospitals at Camps
Grant, Custer, Sherman, Dodge and
Taylor, in addition to all aviation
fields and smaller camps In the cen
tral department of the army. In ad
dition to these the depot supplies fur
niture to all army hospitals in the
country.
Among the hundreds of articles sent
out from here Major Shields listed j
scalpels, thermometers, hot water and
ice bags, invalid chairs, cots, chairs,
tables, silverware, operating appar
atus, plumbing suj^iles, bandages,
operating gowns, attendants' and
nurses’ clothing, pajamas, towels, lin
ens, settees, plaster for casts, every
known drug used by physicians, anes
thetics. toxins and serums, with the
contrivances necessary for their ap
plication.
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