The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-10-09

wound is lightly plugged up with an anti
septic gauZe. They have devised a i've to
ten per cent solution Of common salt, com
bined with half Of one per cent OF citrate
Of soda. Here is a reversion to the GOOD
old method OF drawing out an infamma
ton. and indeed with this lymph iavage-
SO free flow OF bodily fluids Is deter
mined from the wound that the parts
have to be wrapped In waterproof ma
terial to keep the bedding from being
periiously dampened.
Thus. then. are warfare wounds now
treated. The pus germ (the streptococ-
cus) which formerly filled military hos
pitfalls with suppuration and death is now
thus successfully fought. And the newer
method of fighting the tetanus Cthe
lockjaw) germ by means OF the anu.
tetanus serum. is having considerable
success considering that this disease for
merry had 100 per cent mortality. II
Is the poison 1.-THE toxin generated by
the tetanus bacillus at the site OF the
wound which, getting into the lymph and
blood channels. reaches the brain and the
nervous system and there causes the
most dreadful suffering known to med
teal science. And here Is the point: that
the habitat of this tetanus germ is dirt
especially around stables and MANFRED
mat why Is prONefDially
associated with the perforating wound
In grimy hand done by the rusty nail
from a barnyard door, or the tine OF a
nay FORK. The antitetanus serum in.
jected under the soldiers skin soon after
the wound. certainly within six days. will
prevent this dreadful disease In him
And the practice is advised. and In some
military hospitals required, of injecting
this serum into all wounded soldiers
wounds In this war have very fro
quently been complicated with gas gan
creme. the responsible agent Is here
generally the exploded shell. Shell and
shrapnel make two wounds to every ons
made by the bullet. 10 f. probably that
the bacillus perfringans which occurs al
ways In such wounds. Is the germ re-
sponslble for this gas gangrene. Indeed.
DIT. Weinberg Of tho Pasteur Institute in
Paris, has produced such gangrene in an
finals BY inoculating them with this haciL
Jus And he has prepared a vaccine By
using a twenty -four-hour culture OF n
Perfringans on glucose bouillon. This
vaccine Injected daily has been perfect.
~ well borne by wounded soldiorg suffer.
Ing from this dreadful form Of gangrene.
and with good results. n would seem.
Though time must elapse before success
can definitely be claimed.
Another thing II has been known
mat the drug called emetin viii check
even severe hemOrrhagea such as occur
from the lungs IN patients with consume
uon. Tho military surgeons are nov
trying this remedy with those hemor.
images that are oftentimea 20 fatal after
the wounds Of battle. ~ injections under
the skin Of solutions Of this emetin they
% Indeed arrest many hemorrhaFes
though OF course not ALL and thus prevent
many fatalities
Plastic surgery n done FOR the repIace
ment OF parts lost BY disease or acct.
dent or IN warfare. In Operations on
miladIs face this n called cosmetic sur.
gerry, and there are indeed surgeons 40
skilled that after an operation mIladis
meek retains Without hav all re- ROSY