Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-14
Germany's Lead in Surgery
Nv DR. L. Ewald.

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| and the permission to practice his profession The
education Of German surgeons Is In every respect
| much thorough and complete than that Of the
| French. Germany has Diseased special school OF
military surgery for more than hundred years In
tho institution OF the Pepniere in Berlin The Pep
niere' has attendance Of go medical stu
dents who during the whole Of their studies,
| being taken care by the funds Of the institu
ton Even their spending money is supplied by the
| government These men especially trained Tor
naval and military surgery and follow the colors
soon is declared
IAN leading surgeons Of Germany, especially the
chiefs OF the surgical departments OF all universities
| put a suite Of the army. and in Of
they, well the whole staff OF their assistants
follow the soldiers the field To doubt the efficiency
OF German surgery and their clinical achievements,
means to doubt the surgery and the surgical treat
ment Of all the physicians OF the world
combined There isn't clinic a surgical depart
ment in Germany that not frequentcd constantly
by hundreds Of French, English American. japanese,
Chinese and Spanish physicians. They to per
feet their knowledge. They take advantage OF the
studies and experiments Of German professors. They
looked upon authority after they get back to
their country How many thousands Of
American surgeons took post graduate
German universities? The leading surgeons Of Amer
Germany always welcomed everybody to par
ticpate in the results of her work extending
long periods. Recent have proved the efficiency
and the high standard German field surgery. Ger
many has sent surgeons. nurses, more
equipment to the seat of during the last thirty
years than all the other countries combined. Any
body who wishes to scquaint himself with the truth
fulness Of this statement might take a walk the
public library read the standard works of
Esmarch and Bergman and their comparative sta
tistics OF all the big of the last half century.
81 only want to mention that Germany sent to
Turkey alone during the last Balkan Red
Cross expeditions, each equipped with hundreds of
cots steriizing spparatuses complete operation
outfits and all the small things needed only
for field surgery but also for field nursing.
T. myself have witnessed tho German sanitary
troops sodiers and nurses that trained to take
OF the sick and wounded) during German and
French maneuvers, the in peace I don't
to mention the English encampment Of troops saw.
they a negligible quantity from a medical
standpoint In the attempts to find the wounded in
the field; to discriminate between those who are
severely wounded and those that will be
stored; the transportation OF patients; field surgery
and field nursing of Germany cannot be compared
that of any other country.
The wounded gathered up by men equipped
with searchlights by night and with the assistance
OF dogs. Young German surgeons directly in
firing line. They are designated to determine how
severely the fallen is wounded. They give orders
to orderles to transport the different wounded back
to the first. second third line OF surgical field
hospitals.
1T Is curious incident and significant that
France and England and Japan for the ten
years received their supply of these first aid
from German manufacturers; that all those carried
| by the soldiers OF all nations bear the mark Made
| in Germany hence, literally all bleeding by
| German bullets is stopped by German absorbent
ton; all wounds inflicted by German projectiles
| taken of by German surgical devices
Just the constituent parts of the explosive
substance used by the German army are secret the
ingredients Of the disinfecting substance Mastx,'
used with the best results in the German army are
! guarded secret. The 'Mastix' is a salve. It is
| applied in the absence of bandages or other blood
stopping material the wound and the neighbor-
| ing surface. Exposed to the air 1t Immediately
hardens stopping the bleeding, closing the
| tight eliminating the danger of Infection Trans
portation facilities Of the field hospitals
have been invented, improved and methodically APP
piled by German surgeons during the ten years
1T seems almost beyond human faculty to do
moro for her wounded soldiers than Germany is doing
today. not only for those that German uniforms
but for everybody without discrimination Of race or
nation requiring surgical attention on the battlefield
The highest principle of the German sanitary corps
the one that nobody would dare to sin against is:
If man is wounded he has ceased to be an enemy
| Are not the instruments he uses made by German
instrument makers and mostly known to the profess
| Sion by German names? Are the books and Jour
nails that keep him in touch with profession cit
ing nearly page this that great operation
performed by German surgeon? Are not hundreds
OF operations that he performs named after German
professors who performed them for the first time?
! Il mention only man, Prof DR.. Hidebrand
who has treated over one hundred thousand wounded
men in the recent in Europe and who made
war surgery special branch OF the medical depart-
ment in Germany. And Germany possesses hundreds
| OF his type
! Japans field surgery in her against Russia
was very superior. Everybody knows where the cum
Ming little yellow fellow studied art of surgery
! In the Balkan wars 30 per OF those shot
through the head and treated by other than German
field surgeons. died. The French and English sur
geons are daring But they lost their heads too
quickly and take the most extreme steps to save III,
life OF the patient In many instances they trephned
the skull and the results increasing mortality
AT the same time only per Of those treated by
German field surgeons died. The German military
surgeon knows a well the soldier that the best
method TO conquer the enemy is to study the case
profoundly It Is; to devise after careful consdera
ton or all circumstances, a certain plan OF action
and then adhere to It, Statistics OF results OF Ger
field show that method is far superior
| TO any other.
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