New-York tribune., 1916-07-12
psduces Wounds to Math-
emat;cal Equations
in France.
HAS FOUND NEW
CLEANING FLUID
o,tsr from Hospital Tells of AL
most Impossible Feats Sur
geon Has Worked.

HArNfnT
.,-.h-sr This is the remarkable sur
..ol feat that is daily being accom-
s.shed bv Or. Alexis Carrel, formerly
- ,he Rockefeller Institute. but now
.,,,s,inc his own hospital behind the
v-,,cb battle lines as sn adjunct 10
-, American Fund for French
u,unded. The physician has reduced
,,urd healing 20 mathematical equa-
,,,s whereby he can tell exactly how
lang it will take patient to recover
rom his injuries.
4 letter received yesterday at the
New York Offices Of the fund. written
" vlsabel Stevens Lathrop, tells fasci-
,..;pc story Of how the great American
,svsieian is accomplishing a work that
,.ar AGO would have been impossible.
Sbe saws ganCrene is unknown in his
N,s,;tal. because Or. Carrel has dis
.,vs-ed an antiseptic that will destroy
r,erobes without impairing tissue.
yrsry man in his hospital, she declares,
s,sn though he may have been brought
: With as many as ten great shrapnel
wounds ia his body, seems almost in
rerieet health.
Secret Is Cleanliness.
a ra0 is brought from the tire hes
VII one or dozen hideOus wounds,
susI with shrapnel," Mrs. Lathrop
avs. in relating the marvels Of Dr..
Csrrers work "He is put under the
y.ray, and the first step is 10 clear
srsy every particle of foreign matter.
To insure perfect cleanliness, the sur
rson cuts away flesh unsparingly. The
rext step is the whole secret Of DR..
Cs--e's success; he keeps the wound
clean.
10 accomplish this, a rubber tube is
Inserted n the wound, and the other
end Of it Is attached 70 the bottle which
holds the wonderful cleaning fluid
Dr. Carrel has discovered. The fluid
6r:ps. drps, night and day, right into
the wound.
The first day after this treatment
Ire soldiers wound is dressed This
s nothing more than removing the
rsu1e that is in the wound. Then an
oppression of the injury is taken.
Something that looks like the film OF a
Kodak is laid on the wound. When II
q removed the outline is there, show
.ag the extent Of the injury.
Then Algebra Begins.
"Then the algebra and the mathe-
matte commence. The impression Is
,sken 70 the laboratory, where the num-
ber o. microbes contained in the wound
,re counted. Each wounded soldier
lss o chart. upon which the history Of
ls case is recorded DAY by day. The
,o.are centimetres Of his wound are
nea.ured. and the number OF microbes
are SCI down each day as they decrease.
"Ater q few days the record is plot
tel alcebraically. A line is drawn
rough the dots which appear on the
TO-. and the curve of this line, to-
lether with the patients age and the
sc Of the original injury, become fac
'ors in an algebraic equation, which,
vheI worked out, gives the exact DAY
.5oq which the wound Will be healed.
"Dr Carrel told me he had treated
tghty-tnree cases since adopting this
method only three OF which had not
healed exactly on the day he had fore
/ told lie showed US the history Of one
Ease which had come in February
After four DAYS the date Of healing was
pgt down for April 26. On that day 1t
vas done.
All Men Look Fit.
"Dr. Carrels work is so fascinating
that the horror Of injury is dlspelied.
Bu, there is no horror after all. Pam
comes ;om unclean wounds, and those
I ia Dr. Carreps hospital are perfectly
clean. Therefore. there is 10 suppura-
tion, and consequently no fever We
went from man 10 man, from ward 20
ward. Every one was propped up IN
bed looking as III as possible.
with this apparently simple treat
msl., therefore, every man can go
back 20 the service Of his country in
normal physical condition. Gangrene,
he great curse Of the surgical wards
.o-day, is an unknown quantity.
therefore there are no amputations
.iom that cause.
"Why doesn't every surgeon in
France follow in tle steps of this re-
-srkable man ?"
@Dr. Carrel is to-day the same SIM
DE. modest man that made America
his admirer, though he has changed
ts civilian dress for an oihcers uni
form. and on his breast hang the deco
lnt.ons that he so richly deserves. The
l-nute the war is over we are gong
T. have him back in America. where
s will take up his broken work OF eX-
liermtntal surgery"
Makes Plea for Plaster.
Mrs. Lathrop's letter TO the fund here
lrskes an urgent plea for oxide ad-
Essive plaster. which DR.. Carrel uses IN
ts treatment of wounded soldiers.
IN dressing wounds" she says, "he
ises gauze in small or large squares
tccording 10 the size of the injury.
lals is dipped into the irrigatlng solu-
90 and put into the wound. The only
ne saw soldier vince in DR.. Car
\ hospital was when his wound was
VI ing dressed. ] cite the case because
f win interest the people who are
skiing these bandages. They are al
avs so useful"
\ The New York Offices Of the fund are
IA East Thirty-seventh Street.
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