Soldiers have recovered from as many as twenty and thirty bullet-wounds in the flesh.
An American lady assisting in the English Red Cross work told me that she saw 2000 wounded every day for eleven days arriving at Boulogne.
About the middle of December I learned that orders had been given to clear the Boulogne hospital base and prepare for a large number of wounded.

Relief days for the troops at the front were shortened, and it was intimated to me in good quarters that the Germans would enjoy no Christmas in their trenches.

The Allies advanced, counted their dead and wounded, and ceased in the attack.
I do not believe that any great forward movement can be made on either side from or against these trenches in the winter time.

In good strategy and diplomacy, the break-up of Germany should come from other quarters.
There is considerable typhoid arising from the trench-work, but I heard it stated in medical circles that the Servian troops, with their milder climate, had found a new way of healing wounds.

Not having the hospital base and equipment of other countries, they heal their wounds in the open air with the result that there is no tetanus or lock-jaw.
In Switzerland human tuberculosis is now being cured by exposing the chest, directly over the affection, to the full rays of the sun.
The casualties of this war have been tremendous for France.