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The Way of the Cross
from rheumatism. From rheumatism in its most acute form. What can we do? What help can we give these people who must spend their nights in the forests?
There are many cases of typhoid fever
And at the medical stations on the road the doctors give a sigh of relief and exclaim
—Thank God, no typhus.
Dysentery is raging.
—It is astonishing, how many are suffering from dysentery!—and that also is a matter for despair.
Nearly everybody has bronchitis.
Many cases of acute pneumonia.
Among the children, scarlatina.
Scores are suffering from bruises and blisters, and have their feet bandaged up.
So blistered, that it’s impossible to walk.
Feet scorched from the bonfires near which the people have slept at night in the forest.
