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WWI
Contrasting Hospital Methods
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

In an address before the McLean County Medical Society one day after his discharge from the service, Dr. Robert Avery Noble, former major in the medical service with the A. E. F., stated that the American wounded received better care than any of the other allied soldiers. The French custom, he said, was to care for the least wounded first, while the more severely wounded who would be unable to return to the line after leaving the hospital were the last to receive attention. The American method was to care for all wounded men as early and as rapidly as possible and to give the most severely wounded the first attention. The French, he said, rarely worked at night. He said that there were all kinds of injuries which could possibly be conceived of from the high explosive shells and machine gun bullets. [McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]

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