Courant reprints an account of an operation performed on John Voorhees

The Courant received an update on Voorhees on June 24, 1918.

John Voorhees would return to the United States on December 24, 1918.

From Odell’s article:  “YMCA work is not a safe job for men who come to France.  The roll of honor is lengthening – death, wounds, gas poisoning, shell shock.  Indeed, as a matter of proportion, I think the YMCA casualties will show nearly as high a percentage as the army.”

1. The Outlook was a weekly magazine published in New York City. It began publication as The Christian Union in 1870.  Its named changed in 1893 as it moved from religious subjects to cover social and political issues.
2. Joseph Odell was a Presbyterian minister who also had a distinguished career in journalism, working in Scranton and Philadelphia.
3. The Courant got the title of Odell’s article wrong – they said it was “The Life of the Inferno,” but it was actually “The Lip of the Inferno.”

Odell, Joseph H., “The Lips of the Inferno:  Special Correspondence from the Front,” The Outlook, Volume 119 (May-August 1918), pp 583-585 (August 14, 1918)

Unattributed, “Blood Transfusion Saved Dr. Voorhees,” Hartford Courant, August 16, 1918, page 4.

Unattributed, “Dr. Joseph H. Odell Dies,” New York Times, August 30, 1929, page 13.

Unattributed, “Dr. Joseph H. Odell Dies,” New York Times, August 30, 1929, page 13.

Unattributed, “The Outlook (New York City),” Wikipedia, last edited February 8, 2021 (accessed 4/12/2021).