Cheyenne record., 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 Reeesses, Killing All
Mlerobes-Horrors Of Dressing
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 involmtarily with pain every
day when the bandages are removed
and the wounds treated.
At 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 2 they weSe
brought. to this hospital, the bandages
were flung away, the wounds were
subjected to repeated applications OF
stream of ozone, being lightly COW
cred with q loose layer Of lint in the
intervals, and in four days healing was
in rapid progress.
This treatment is simplicity itseif.
Oxygen passes from reservoir into
an electrical machine which converts
II into ozone; the ozone flows out
through a fine metal tube. The ma
chine is wheeled close to the patients
bed. the wound uncovered, ana
stream Of the microbe-killin ozone
flows into the deepest recesses. NO
painful dragging on Of bandages. no
rebandaging Of the limb to hurt and
exhaust the patient
s--l v ~ NI
New Treatment I success.
Here was seen soldier who had
lost his right foot. with stump COW
cred with skin SO healthy and hard
that he could walk upon 1t, a surgical
MARVEL 6,
What might be called the open-air
treatment of wounds has come to stay.
At the Herbert hospital is 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 to secure
immobility and Is covered only with
single layer of lint. The lint is kept
constantly wet with peroxide OF hy-
droeen.v Surrounding the leg is q large
cage covered with q sheet of thin but
ter muslin, 70 that the wound is con-.
tinually, refreshed by free current of
air. Extremely rapid healing and
freedom from the agony Of manipula-
tion are the great gains from this
mode Of treatment.
The Whirlpool bath is entirely war
invention, from which excellent results
in cases Of stir joints have been OBJ
tained In France. It consists Of Q
small oblong bath, filed with water
which Is kept In continuous movement
by q miniature propeller revolved ut
Q very high speed BY means of an cleo
tric 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 are to be seen, such MS the trans
ference Of large piece of bone from
the leS 70 fill a ZAP ~ the arm bone
,et jaw rfsSsiszi
Trench foot Is being more or less
successfully treated BY massage. oper-,
alton. and other methods.
AfssF lie Surgeon the Masseur.
All sorts Of joint injuries go to Ham,
mersmith hospital. and there, as well
~ ut other hospitals. II to. be seen
Q collection Of Ingenious exercises for
restoring mobility. When the surgeon
has done an that he can the. patient
goes to the masseurs and the exercis-
srs. II his wrist Is sun he twists
. bar with graduated resistance; u he
cannot fully close his hand he grAsps
. thick bar and turns II, passing on to
thinner and thinner bars ~ the hand