Surgeon Grow; An American in the Russian Fighting - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1458855937 ISBN 13: 9781458855930

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX I GO "over The Top" ■^JEXT morning, while we were having our ■*■ tea piping hot from Nicholi's samovar, the stretcher-bearers brought in a badly wounded soldier. He was covered with a blanket and as they placed him on the stretcher I was amazed at his strange appearance. He was no longer than a child and yet his arms were of the average length and his shoulders were broad! As he lay under the blood-soaked blanket, he moaned feebly. His face was ghastly, a peculiar greenish white. As an orderly lifted the blanket, the poor fellow cried out: "My feet! My feet! My God, don't touch my feet!" I gazed horror-stricken as the blanket was removed and I saw why he had looked so small. There were no feet! Neither were there any legs to speak of--just stumps bound in bloodsoaked bandages. "A high explosive shell dropped in the trench near him and exploded," one of the orderlies, with blanched face, explained to me in a whisper. "A large fragment struck him between the knee and the hip, carrying away both legs. One leg hung by a small strip of skin, Excellency, but I cut it off with my knife, for it was difficult to carry him with it swinging about before we got him on the stretcher." The orderlies had applied tourniquets, partially checking the hemorrhage. "Oh! my feet, why do they pain so? Please don't touch them, don't touch them!" he pleaded. I gave him a hypodermic of morphine for the pain and a pint of hot salt solution in one of the veins of his arm, for he had lost much blood. I tied off the arteries and veins with cat-gut to prevent further hemorrhage and then took off the tourniquets. I then cleaned up the stumps as well as I could, applied iodine to the raw surfaces and put on clean bandages, during all of which he complained bitterly ...

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• ISBN 10: 1458855937
• ISBN 13: 9781458855930
• Einband: Tapa blanda