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SERGEANT VAN
HAS CURE FOR
SHELL-SHOCK
PARIS. Jun. I "Doctor Vim" Isn't
a doctor, really that Is, he has never
been inside of a medical school. He j
is not a commissioned officer, either, j
Two days after the war was declared !
in America lie enlisted in one of the
cities of the Middle West and came |
over as a private, lie is a sergeant i
now. His experiences -driving an am ■
balance lirst, and after that in the
front line, and then in various camps
in France till he was sent to a base
hospital as a patient would fill sev
eral diaries, if he keeps such things,
which I doubt.
Hut there are a good many men in
that base hospital who owe their re
turning health to him, after they had
been in lied for weeks and even
months. Now, although they admit
that he is well agagiu. they will not
let him go from the hospital, because
a transfer is a long and tedious busi
ness to tiring about, and they need
hitn there to help out with the pa
tients. I
He was only out of bed a day or
so himself when he came across two
hoys in one of the wards who had
been In tile hospital since April. One
of them had been an interpreter with
tin* French army and the other was
a marine from Chateau Thierry. They
| had been shell shocked, and in all
! these months from April to Septem
: her they had grown scarcely any
better.
Captain." Sergeant Van said one
morning to tlie doctor in charge of i
I the ward, "do you mind if I sec what
I can do for those men there? i .
| think I may In- able to help them out
a Hit, if you don’t mind."
Tile captain looked at him inter
, .iedly It it had been any other
man the captain would have been in
' din. -, til. perh;o- ■ Hut Sen ant Van
has a way with him.
"What do you want to do with
them'.’" he wanted to know,
i -I'd just like to talk to th'-m a bit.
[ sir. now and then," Sergeant Van
said.
The captain threw up his hands.
"Kamerad! ” he cried. ..atm tally.
“Talk Is the deadliest medicine on top
of the earth."
"I was meaning it, sir." the sergeant
said, steadily.
"Oh, go ahead. Van." the captain
i agreed "Do anything you blame
! pU’UHt*
The next morning, on his rounds,
the captain stopped beside the bed of
the tirst of the two men who had
been shell shocked.
"How's it coming this morning,
boys?” he asked.
"F-f fine, sir." was the answer, a
[little unsteadily given, perhaps, but
t the captain did not notice that. He
sat down on the bed and looked at
the tioy in amazement. Those were
h«* first words he had spoken aloud 4
dnee the day he came to the hos
>ital, unconscious. five months be
'ore.
At that moment Sergeant Van hove
nto sigtit from tin- diet kitchen. He
lad a plate of milk toast in his hands
a plate that the hoy in bed followed j
a ith an interested gaze
“Meg pardon, sir. ' Sergeant Van
mid. saluting, "but I inii.-l ask you
to wait until my patient has had his ,
breakfast before you talk with him.”
The astonish* d captain allowed him
o*l! to he waived from the bed to the
nearest chair, and watt h in amaze
ment the hoy devour the toast His
bands shook so from shell-shock that
to* could scarcely manage it. hut he
was propped up and fed himself, with
i*very appearam • of keen interest in
bis food The day before tin* hoy
had not been able to swallow any
thing but liquid food, and he couldn’t
have held the spoon.
The captain beckoned Sergeant Van
to the end of the ward.
"Did you do that?” he demanded.
"Yes, sir." admitted Sergeant Van.
How in blue blazer " began the
captain, and paused for lack of words.
"I'll show you if you like, sir.”
"I do like.” ordered the captain.
So Van showed him Though the
doctor couldn’t quite make it out. at
that, just what Van did. He stroked
their heads a iittl** and massaged
their throats a hit, and all the time
he "talked" to them in tin* quietest,
most harmless-sounding voice in the
world. Hut ten minutes after he be
gan the boys were asleep, naturally. *
without a tremor in th«* bodies that '
had been nerve-wracked for weeks.
The doctor looked at Sergeant Van
helplessly and left, shaking his head.
Two weeks later Sergeant Van held
a clinic before a major general of tin*
medical corps and several majors and
still more captains and lieutenants
all men of reputation in America as
doctors. Two of his subjeeis were
the two men over whom In worked
that fir -t morning 'Hi* * < ame inn.
tfi»' clinic. cle;irevf»d and fnieht an I
ruddy a - alhletr> in.m fin* fi. Id. Tin
pas -"il tests that tit" dnr‘i»rs « •»u 1-1::‘f
piss fhemstdv e • ( ) I! • 1.1 ill. Ill - ilp
pen mg him.-eli ip in : s!n.;ild- i and
his ankli s I. : v. . n t u laid. in id
file weight of lour ot the huskiest
of tin doctors, standing upon him at
the same time. Another suhjeet was
a huge negro who had been brought
to the hospital tin- day before, and
whom Sergeant Van had never seen.
Four hypodermics had not been able
to quiet him. and they brought him ,
in in a straight-jacket. It took Van
seven minutes to have him asleep.
Since then the shell shock cases
have been in Van's hands. The doc
tors shake their heads and wonder
An American professor, well known
for his psychological research work,
shakes his head. too. and has nothing
to say.
In tin* camp and the hospital they
call him the "hypnotist." Perhaps
he is. ruder tin* management of the
Young Men’s Christian A sociation he
has given a great many performances
that set the men into gal s of laugh
ter regular slapstick f« is of mes
meric ability. He laugh when you
try to get him to explain them. "Oh.
I don’t know." In* will say. Hut he
grows serious over his shell-shock
cases
• It isn't that ! hypnotize them at
all. In* will i«dl yon I just tell them
that they are bigger than their nerves
and that they can control them if they
really want to. And I show them
how They believe it because I tell
them it is so. and then, you see, they
are well.”
Hut the doctors continue to won
der. and to say that Van has discov
ered tin* first really successful treat
■ ineiii for shell-shock.
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MILLIONS OF LADYBUGS
TO BE PUT IN ACTION
IWI.l.M \N. Wash Jail. I Not in
1 gray uniforms, hut in brieklsh roil
anil black, and perhaps other colors,
will an army of 30.tMi0.0iH) advance to
the attack of Walla Walla. Klickitat.
Whitman and Columbia counties of
Washington next spring.
The Invading army will be com-I
posed of ladybugs gathered this win 1
ter by county agricultural agents or j
their assistants and carefully cured
i for during the winter In barracks of
l excelsior and green debris from the
: woods. After the period of hiberna
j tion tho ladybugs will be invited to
uttack the aphid pest in the gardens
and Helds of these counties. It will
be a "major action." for the test was
tried out on a small scale with suc
cess last year.
Each ladybug. say the experts at
the Washington State College, can
devour 150 aphids and produce some
200 of its own young in a season.
Because of these known facts tho ag
ricultural agents hope to reduce the
estimated $2,000,000 loss of this past
year in various crops, due to the
aphids.
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