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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Herbert Corey 



THE DOUBLE-BARRELED COOTIE CANNON IN ACTION 



American youths waiting around while their cootied clothes are being cooked. As an 

 evidence of the stress which General Pershing puts on cleanliness, a cable from the front 

 announces that razors are now being issued to the enlisted men of the American Expedition- 

 ary Forces. Clean faces are adjudged to be an element in morale. In addition to a razor of 

 the safety type, together with extra blades as required, each man is issued a tooth-brush, 

 comb, hair-brush, soap, and towels. This is the first time in the history of our army that 

 razors have been issued. 



"I don't mind the nights on guard in 

 the front trench," many say, "because the 

 nights are cold and 'they' are quiet. But 

 I dread the coming of the day, when I 

 must crawl back into my dugout and try 

 to sleep and know that I shall have to lie. 

 awake and feel 'them' crawl. 'They' be- 

 come a torture." 



Practically all of the men in the ad- 

 vance areas are lousy, according to a 

 document that is accepted as authorita- 

 tive. It is impossible to tell what pro- 

 portion of the men in the rear and along 

 the lines of communication and in depots 

 are infested. 



It is probable that the men in the 

 French armies suffer to a like extent, for 

 the conditions under which they live are 

 identical with those of the other armies. 



During the formative period of the 



American army in France the men were 

 able to keep fairly clean — only fairly — 

 but with the opening of the year's activ- 

 ity they were set upon the same footing 

 as their allies. 



HOW THE SURGEONS WORK AETER A GREAT 

 BATTLE 



The great fear of the military surgeons 

 is the time following a battle, when the 

 field hospitals and clearing stations are 

 swamped by a flood of wounded men ly- 

 ing grimly silent upon their blood-soaked 

 litters. Then the surgeons work in teams, 

 each operator being accompanied by his 

 ether specialist and his orderlies and 

 nurses. 



They go from table to table swathed 

 in white, their instruments freshly cleaned 

 and sterilized and glittering, their cotton 



