Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE ZONE OF THE AEMIES As I have mentioned before, continental France is divided by an arbitrary line into two general divisions--the Zone of the Interior and the Zone of the Armies. In this latter Zone are the majority of the Military Hospitals, not all of which are subject to gunfire since this zone extends from the first lines back to the ultimate edge where the two zones join. This Zone of the Armies is further subdivided into three regions: the Zone of the Advance, which, as its name implies, is that of the actual fighting, the place of the combat: the Zone of the Rear where reserves of personnel and materiel are maintained for the reinforcement of those at the front, and the Zone of the Line of Communication, which is the traffic route by which these reserves are brought forward and by which the wastage is sent back for repair. The character of the Medical service, of the Hospitals, depends on which one of the three different subdivisions they happen to be located in, the more formal as a matter of course being more removed from the actual fighting. Some of the hospitals of the latter type are of particular interest and have occupied a more or less prominent place in the public press and have come to be pretty well known in this manner to the average reader of the news. One of these is Carrel's Hospital at Compiegne. Most of us know of Carrel: of his association with the Rockefeller Foundation; that he won the Nobel prize, and that recently he has established in New York a hospital for the demonstration of his method of the treatment of infected wounds. It would not, I presume, be good taste for me to discuss the pros and cons of his methods and as a matter of fact that is hardly a function of any writing as...