the aid of a cupboard and two curtains.  Electric current was obtained from a dynamo bolted on to the step of a twenty-horse-power car, and driven by a belt from the flywheel of the engine.  The car stood out in the courtyard and snorted away, whilst we worked in the storeroom alongside.  The coil and mercury break were combined in one piece, and the whole apparatus was skilfully contrived with a view to portability.  Madame Curie was an indefatigable worker, and in a very short time had taken radiographs of all the cases which we could place at her disposal, and, indeed, we ransacked all the hospitals in Furnes, for when they heard of her arrival, they were only too glad to make use of the opportunity.  Mademoiselle Curie developed the plates, and between them they produced photographs of the greatest utility to us.

Considering its obvious utility, whether in war or in civil practice, it has always been a source of wonder to me that there is no such thing as a car designed and built with a view to radiography.  Perhaps it exists, but if so, I have never met It only means the building into the frame of suitable dynamo, and the provision of means for storing the rest of the equipment.  It would place an X-ray equipment at the disposal of ever cottage hospital, or even of a country-house, and it would place the cottage hospital, not to mention the country-house, at the disposal of the enterprising radiographer.

As soon as our patients could be moved, we had to send them on to their base hospitals—­the Belgians to Calais and the French to Dunkirk.

From Calais the Belgians were brought over the Channel, and distributed all over England and Scotland.  I had a postcard from one of them from Perth.  The French were taken on in hospital ships to Cherbourg and other seaports along the coast.  From Furnes they were all carried in hospital trains, and the scene at the station when a large batch of wounded was going off was most interesting.  Only the worst cases were ever brought to our hospital; all the others were taken straight to the station, and waited there until a train was ready to take them on.  Often they would be there for twelve hours, or even twenty-four, before they could be got on, and the train itself would be constantly shunted to let troops and ammunition go by, and might take twelve hours to reach its destination.  There were no proper arrangements for the feeding of these men, all of whom were more or less badly wounded; and at first, when we heard at the hospital that a train was about to be made up, we took down all the soup and coffee we could manage to spare in big pails and jugs.  But this was a mere makeshift, and was superseded very soon by a more up-to-date arrangement.  A proper soup-kitchen was established at the station, with huge boilers full of soup and coffee always ready, and after that it was never necessary for a wounded soldier to leave Furnes hungry.  All this was due to the energy and resource of Miss