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Five Thousand Wounded Treated in Seven Weeks Chicago Bohemian-Slavonic Surgeons Performed Over Five Hundred Operations in Serbian Field Hospitals before End of Last Year (News release from the Bohemian-American Press Bureau)

DennĂ­ Hlasatel, Mar. 3, 1915

The leader of the American Slavic medical expedition to Serbia, Dr. Rudisjicinsky sent a report, on the day when the expedition entered Serbia, to the Cesko-Americka Tiskova Kancelar (Bohemian-American Press Bureau) on the activities, to the end of last year, of the physicians, Dr. Rudis-Jicinsky, Dr. Guca, Dr. Kara, and the nurses, Mrs. Guca, Miss Hampel, and Mr. Klepal.

The group took care of 205 wounded and sick in the Engineers' Barracks in Dzevdzeli from November 12 to 16; 525 in the Grad Hospital in Skoplja from November 16 to December 31, in addition to 282 sent to the Engineers' Barracks from Bitolje during the same time.

Only 63 of their patients died during the whole time, a comparatively small 2number if we consider that the sick and wounded usually arrive in a very serious condition. The physicians performed, during that time, 261 serious operations and a large number of minor ones. Among the most difficult ones were 3 trepanations, 4 resections of the tibia--two patients died--10 amputations of limbs attacked by gangrene--two patients died--many other amputations, drainings, 156 settings of simple and compound fractures, etc.

The report says that the expedition took along from America 2,737 dinars' worth of materials, apparatus, and bandages.

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