Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-10-05
use NO BANDAGES
IN new SURGERY
Latest Method Of Healing OBJ
stinate Wounds Proves
Great Success.
ARE SPRAYED WITH OZONE
Stream OF Gaseous Substance Flows
Into Deepest Recesses, Killing All
Microbes-Horrors Of Dressing
Wounds Eliminated.

Wounds Eliminated.
London. are eliminated
in the latest methods Of healing OBJ
stinate wounds here. This is one of
the marvellous developments of surgery
TO which the war has given impetus
one Of the horrors of hospitals is
dressing wounds. Strong, brave men
scream involuntarily with pain every
day when the bandages are removed
and the wounds treated.
Al Queen Alexandra's military hos
pital today several patients were ex'
hibited undergoing the new treatment.
Two Of these men were most severely
wounded in September Of last year,
and for ten months had been treated
In the customary way without any sign
Of healing. On August they were
( brought to this hospital, the bandages
were flung away, the wounds were
subjected TO repeated applications OF
a stream Of ozone, being lightly Gov
cred with loose layer Of lint In the
intervals, and In four days healing was
In rapid progress.
This treatment is simplicity itself.
Oxygen passes from a reservoir into
an electrical machine which converts
IL into ozone; the ozone flows out
through a fine metal tube. The ma
chine is wheeled close 10 the patients
bed. the wound uncovered, and
stream Of the mlcrobe-killing ozone
flows into the deepest recesses. No
painful dragging of of bandages, no
rebandaging Of the limb TO hurt anc
exhaust the patient
New Treatment a Success.
Here was seen soldier who had
lost his right foot, with a stump COW
cred with skin so healthy and hard
that he could walk upon 1t, surgical
marvel.
What might be called the open-air
treatment OF wounds has come 20 stay.
Al the Herbert hospital is a soldier
with a bad compound fracture Of the
leg. The limb is not swathed In many
Yards OF bandages as was the custom,
but lies between sandbags 10 secure
lmmObllity and is covered only with a
single layer Of lint. The lint is kept
constantly wet with peroxide of by
drogen. Surrounding the leg Is large
cage covered with a sheet Of thin but
ter muslin, so that the wound Is con-
tlnually refreshed by free current Of
air. Extremely rapid healing and
freedom from the agony Of manipula.
ton are the great gains from this
mode Of treatment.
The whirlpool bath is entirely war
invention, from which excellent results
In cases Of stiff joints have been oh
talned In France. II consists OF a
small oblong bath, filled with water
which is kept In continuous movement
by a miniature propeller revolved at
d very high speed by means Of an cleo
trio motor. A still arm or leg hand
or foot, placed In the bath and kept
there for some time Is much improved
by the stimulus Of the running water
Marvellous examples Of bone carpen.
try nre 20 be seen such as the trans
ference Of large piece Of bone from
the leg to I'LL a gap In the arm bone
or Jaw.
Trench foet Is being more or less
treated by massage, oper
alton, and other methods.
After the Surgeon the masseur.
All sorts of Joint injuries go TO Ham
hospital, and there, as well
us ut other hospitals. is to be seen
a collection Of ingenious exercises for
restoring mobility. When the surgeon
has done all that he can the patient
goes TO the masSeurs and the exercis.
ers. II his wrist is stiff he twists /.
a bar with graduated resistance; II he |
fully close his hand he grasps
thick bar and turns II, passing on to
thinner and thinner bars as the hand
improves; the patient with a stlfr knee
IS put 20 exercise on n stationary bl. |
cycle; others according TO the nature
md situation Of the defect. practice
rowing, climbing ladders, pulling on
weighted ropes; and with these cura.
tive exercises Is combined massage.
with electric treatment. and other
remedies.
In the laboratories OF the ROYAL
Army medical college vacclnes are
made 10 secure the men against Is.
phdd fever. which used 10 be more
fatal In war than the bayonet and the
bullet combined; paratyphold fever. 50
rare formerly 80 common now In
France; the cholera of Salonikl and
Egypt; and pneumonia, one Of the sol.
iicr's worst trench enemies in cold
weather.
About ten million doses Of these
'accines have been sent out from Nil.
wall since the war began. Among
hem Is most valuable mixed ync.
zine which gives protection from both
typhoid aud the two forms Of pnraty.
mold fever. This has been In use
since January last quite new. since
The war began. are the measures talk.
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