November, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS x1 
A MOTOR HOSPITAL 
HE maneuvers of the sanitary depart- 
ment of the military government of 
Paris, which take place annually at the 
Gravelle camp, were unusually interesting 
this year. The exercises included the es- 
tablishment of a rescue service by automo- 
bile, a relay ambulance service and a tem- 
porary hospital, in addition to curious ex- 
periments in training dogs to search for 
wounded men. The most striking character- 
istic of these maneuvers was the extensive 
employment of automobiles for the expe- 
ditious rescue of the wounded. 
The most remarkable specimen of the new 
equipment is an automobile operating-room, 
in which surgical operations can be per- 
formed at the battle-front in conditions. as 
favorable as those afforded by a hospital. 
Severe abdominal wounds, which are very 
common in modern warfare, cannot be op- 
erated upon properly by the ordinary field 
service, and in many cases the removal of 
the patient is equivalent to a sentence of 
death. 
The new vehicle, which has a forty-horse- 
power motor capable of developing an aver- 
age speed of twenty miles per hour, is fur- 
nished with all of the accessories and the 
latest improvements of a hospital operating- 
room. Its principal compartment, the op- 
erating-room proper, contains an improved 
operating table and a wash basin supplied 
with sterilized water. In front is a smaller 
compartment, containing the sterilizing ap- 
paratus and the electrical apparatus, which 
is operated by the motor, whether the 
vehicle is in motion or at rest. 
A very ingenious arrangement enables the 
surgeon to locate the bullet accurately by 
the application of Roentgen rays. The 
operator, shielded from diffuse light by a 
photographer’s hood, moves the fluorescent 
screen over the patient’s body until the 
shadow of the bullet falls on a small hole 
at the center of the screen. By inserting a 
pencil in this hole the position of the 
shadow is marked on a sheet of translucent 
paper, ruled in squares, which is placed 
under the screen. The angle of observation 
is then altered slightly and the new position 
of the projection of the bullet is marked 
in the same way on ruled paper. From 
the distance between the two marks, the 
depth of the bullet can be obtained, by re- 
ferring to a table computed in advance. 
The operating-room also contains a com- 
plete trepanning apparatus, which is oper- 
ated by a special motor. The vehicle car- 
ries an apparatus for sterilizing water by 
ultra-violet rays, for the use of the troops. 
The water is drawn from any convenient 
brook or pond by an electric pump. 
A folding tent, for the shelter of patients 
before and after operation is attached to 
each side of the vehicle. 
The employment of automobile operat- 
ing-rooms of this sort would save many 
lives. In the recent war in Manchuria the 
mortality among the severely wounded was 
ninety per cent, because of the inadequate 
facilities for prompt operatory treatment. 
This mortality could probably be diminished 
by two-thirds by the use of automobile op- 
erating-rooms in which operations could be 
performed in perfectly aseptic conditions. 
A JUBILEE OF THE UMBRELLA 
N August 12 it was 200 years ago that 
Jonas Hanway of London was born, 
who is credited with being the first person 
to use an umbrella. When first carried, the 
frame consisted of whalebone, covered with 
heavy oilskin, the whole weighing nearly 
ten pounds, 
feat 
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very day—in millions of homes, little — 
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taught the joy of healthful living 
and 
bathing in cleanly, beautiful “Standard” 
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Genuine “Standard” fixtures for the Home 
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Institutions, etc., are identified by the 
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of one brand of baths bearing the Red and 
Biack Label, which, while of the first 
quality of manufacture, have a_ slightly 
thinner enameling, and thus meet the re- 
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