Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-10-11
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
Mierobes-Horrors Of Dressing
Wounds Eliminated.

Observation-Disclosures 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
AID the wounds treated.
At Queen -Alexandra's military hos
pieal today several patients were ex-
hibited undergoing the new treatment.
Two of these men we're 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 Fung away, the wounds were
subjected to repeated applications of
a stream Of ozone, being lightly COW
cred with a 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 mGchine which converts
IL into ozone; the ozone flows out
through a fine metal tube. The ma
chine is wheeled close TO the patients
bed. the wound uncovered, and a
stream of the microbe-killing ozone
flows into the deepest recesses. No
painful dragging off of bandages. no
rebandaging of the limb TO hurt and
exhaust the patient
New Treatment q Success.
Here was seen a soldier who had
lost his right foot, with a stump COW
cred with skin so healthy and hard
that he could walk upon II, a surgical
marvel.
What might be called the open-air
treatment Of wounds has come to stay.
At 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 5etween sandbags to secure
immobiniy and Is covered only with a
single layer of lint. The lint is kept
constantly wet with peroxide of hy
drogen. Surrounding the leg is n large
cage covered with a sheet of thin but
ter muslin, so that the wound is con-
tinuaIly 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 a war
invention, from which excellent results
In cases of stiff joints have been OBJ
tanned in France. II consists of
small oblong b. tn. filed with water
which is Re;;,t 81 continuous movement
by a miniature propeller revolved at
a vers high speed by means Of an cleo
:ric motor. A stiff 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 earpen-
try are to be seen, such as the trans
ference Of large piece Of bone from
the leg TO ill gap in the arm bone
or jaw
Trench foot is being more or less
successfully treated by massage. oper-
alton, and other methods.
After the Surgeon the masseur.
All sorts Of joint injuries go TO Ham
mersmith hospital. and there, as well
as at 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 10 the masseurs and the exercls-
ers. II his wrist is stiff he twists
a bar with graduated resistance; IL he
cannot fully close his hand he grasps
a thick bar and turns il, passing on to
thinner and thinner bars as the hand