SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1917.

Ob]. GHINNEGK GIVES ACCOUNT OF
TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOUS MEN

Writing from Ste. Agathe des Monts, ;complete collapse of the attacking forc-
Que., Sergt. W. L. Chinneck contributes les at an early date.

‘to the Montreal Gazette the following
intimate account of how a wounded and
tuberculous soldier is treated:

“Something of the gigantic organiza-
tion that has grown up in our country
for the care of disabled warriors, may
be judged by tracing the career of a
Canadian soldier, from the day he is
wounded in the trenches to the day he
is discharged from the service, fit to re-
sume his civilian occupation, or pen-
sioned according to his disability.

“‘For example, Corporal Jones, wound
ed at Ypres, and _ suffering from shell
shock, is sent down to the nearest dress
ing station. He is transferred to a base
hospital, and from thence, being ser-
iously hurt, to a hospital in England.
In three months he is convalescent. He
will never be fit for the trenches again.
Weak, shaken and a little lame, he also
has tuberculosis. But the time has
come when Canada claims this son of
hers, and he is very ready to cross the
seas to her.

‘“‘And so he is examined by a medical
board; a careful report of his case and
condition is made, a copy of which is
sent, with the soldier, to Quebec. Hav-
ing enlisted with a Montreal Battalion
Corpl. Jones is passed on to that city,
and next appears before the Military
Medical Board there. He is recommend-
ed for six months treatment at the
Laurentide Inn, Ste. Agathe.

“From this moment Canada, in the
shape of the Military Hospitals Com-
mission, has taken the soldier’s cure in
hand; and it will be interesting to show
exactly how she fulfils this duty.

‘“‘The evening of a summer’s day, Cor-
poral Jones sets his feet on that scru-
pulously neat little station in the Lau-
rentine Hills, and straightway is driven
to the ‘‘inn.’?’ He has hardly got his
coat off ere his temperature is taken,
and before he has had time to take
stock of his surroundings he finds him-
self in bed, and supper served him there

“Next morning he is examined by the
medical officer, Dr. J. R. Byers, of
whom more anon, for one could not
write justly on this subject without pay-
ing a tribute to one whom every soldier
eden under his jurisdiction, must grate-
fully respect.

“Beating the devil’s tattoo with heft
fingers all over the bared chest of Cor-
poral Jones, Dr. Byers presently orders
bed and more bed, for the disabled sol-
dier. That means to say he is a ‘Class
A’ patient.

What Treatment Does.

“After two weeks: of complete rest,
‘his temperature is taken every fur
hours, eating: three hearty meals and.
drinking three pints of milk per day,
the corporal is allowed to trade nis bed
for a comfortable canvas chair. Now
he lies all day om a veranda, a class B
patient, and has ample leisure to ad-
mire the bold wooded hills rising up
against the horizon, amd the lovely lake
beneath, in which the mountains are re-
flected as in a mirror. All day long he
breathes in the health-giving Lauren-

tian air, the best possible balm for sick.
lungs.

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‘‘Two months pass away, and now the
soldier is a different man. He has lost
the languor that he brought to the
mountains. He becomes. restless and
envies the boys on exercise. His weight
recorded regularly, has increased by 16
pounds. A great part of the shell shock:
has been blown out of his system by
the bracing Laurentian winds.

‘‘He comes up for examination, and
on this occasion Dr. Byers is able to
give him too excellent things: First,
fifteen minutes’ exercise, morning and
afternoon, and secondly, the splendid
news that in their battle against tuber-
culosis, the lungs of Corporal Jones
have delivered a severe check on tho
hostile bacilli; in fact, have actually
commenced to drive the enemy out of
the invaded territory, and threaten a

“So now, every day, Corporal Jones
puts on his puttees, grips his cane and
walks leisurely up and down and around
the gloriously-garmented hills, and feels

new heritage of life and liberty has been
vouchsafed him.

‘“‘Every. week, since his weight has not
decreased, and all things testify to his
making excellent progress, his exercise
is prolonged fifteen minutes, until at
last he has four hours daily, two in the
morning and two in the afternoon.

Education in Workshop.

‘‘And now we must mention one very
feature of his stay at the
This sanatorium has
the distinction of being the first milit-
ary hospital in Canada to build a work-
patients, to convert the
usually irksome period of convalescence
into a healthy course of education and

Laurentide Inn.

shop for its

“Whilst Corpl. Jones lay in his chair

many an hour he whiled away, fashion-
ing baskets and boxes, gaily colored.
But now he is so far on the road to
health, a class C patient, considerably
hardened by exercise, he can undertake
a more strenuous form of arts and craft
work. He joins a workshop class and
for an hour each day he sits at one of
the eight benches, fitted with every -re-
quisite tool, and learns woodwork.

In these workshop classes the trouble
is to restrain the
work all day, and reluctantly lay down
their tools when the hour’s lesson is
up. Four such classes are held every
day. Thus, thirty-two boys are taught
a craft that will presently enable them
to make articles of marketable value,
and articles of practical use for their
own homes.

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curriculum.

The Mind Helps the Body.

“The institution of this new and im-
portant featuré of sanatorium life lies| of February, 1917.
at the doors of Dr. J. Roddick Byers,
whokte gospel it is that the cure of tub-

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signs of relapse. Symptoms of shock
have almost entirely disappeared. His
lungs are healed; pleuritic pains have
gone. He has had no temperature, and
no cough for two months.

‘““A final examinatiom is made, and his
good progress is taken carefully into
account. But Dr. Byers decides that the

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