New-York tribune., 1911-10-15
RECOVERY FROM INJURIES.


MANY never get over being astonishel
q the recovery OF the Chinese from terrible
injuries I was told Of a coolie who had
had his abdomen torn open in an accident.
and who was assisted 10 hospital SUD-
ported by man on either side and holding
lis bowels ir his hands He was sewed up,
and. I'm spite OF the contamination that
must have got into the abdomen mace
, cujck recovery. Amazing also Is the re-
sponse 10 the treatment Of neglected
wounds Z. boy whose severed fingers mad
, been hastily stuck on anyhow and bound
up with dirty rags came 70 the hospital
after a week with a horrible hand ana
showing clear symptoms OF lockjaw. They
washed his hand and sent him home 10
die. In three DAYS he was about without
n sign Of lockiaw 4 man whose fingers
had been crushed under A cart some days
lcfore came in with blood poisoning all up
lis arm anu in the glands under the arm.
Tho trouble vanished under simple treat
rront. A patient will be- brought i'm with
high fever from a wound OF several davs'
standing full Of maEsots: Yet after the
wound is cleaned the fever quickly sub
si6es \ woman who had undergone a
serious operation for cancer Of the breast
suffered infection and had fever OF %
degrees. during which her husband fed her
with hard water chestnuts. Nevertheless
she recovered.
Nearly all are struck by tho resistance
~ the Chinese TO blood poisoning. From
ms note books I gather such expressions
a. Blood poisoning very rare. More re-
sistant than VIC are 10 septicTmia 'Reia-
tive immunity 20 pus-produclng germs.
More resistant 20 Gangrene than We are.
I Injuries which at home would cause aeri-
l ous ranGrenc do not do so here Pccu-
/ lsrly resistant 10 Infection With badly
gangrened wounds in the eXtremi'ies sho"
very little fever and quickly get vol
+ Women Withstand septicsFma in materni''
cases wonderfully well, recovering after
/ tho do-tors have given them up Recover
from scptosmia after a week OF high fever
/ that would kill q white man. No vondcr
there is a saying rife among the foreign
doctors. Don't give mp Chinamau TIL he's
dead
/ Living in a supcr-sa turated. Man-stihed
. land. profoundly ignorant OF the principles
] OF hygiene the masses have developed an
immunity 20 noXious microbes which OK
/ cites the wonder ana envy Of the foreigner
4 They are not affected by ii mosquito bite
/ that viii raise "A large lump On the lately
come foreigner They can use contami-
mated water from canals without incurring
dyscntery. There is very littlc typhoid. and
what there il IS so attenuated that 10 was
/ long doubted to be typhoid. The fact was
/ settled affirmatively only IS laboratory
tests. All physicians agree that among IN
/ Chinese smallpox is mild disease. one
/ ukened Il 10 the Uumps. Organic heart
trouble. usually the result ~ rheumatic
Z fever. is declared 20 be very rare.
/ 1T is universally remarked thar in taking
b chloroform the Chinese rarely pass through
an excited stage, but go of very quietly
; From after nausea t.'ey arc almost uhollJ
+ froe one physician n tvontg five wears
2 practice has never had death from chlor-
form. slfhough ho b-s not rdm7i1'cred
4 ether half = dozen timea The fs"t i7 hor
| ever. trs stclidlv endure opNr0tio7- bi"r
rs g ould never perform without an lnEs