Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-18
FRESH Air
Best
!Antiseptic

Best marked trend back to nature
Antiseptic After all, Il matters how
skiful surgeon may he nor
how impeccable his technc, he is bound to call
consultant to help him in bringing about
Good healing The consultant is Old Doctor
Nature. Prince OF Charlatans, inflated by nat
tering testimonials initiated by all schools"
able unless supervised BY intelligence. Ma
tLre is a wonderful healer but rccks little
process is under way. For instance Nature will
heal broken bone without human aid hut
what hideous deformity results And Nature
will amputate Gangrenous toe successfully
If the patient can endure the prolonged opera
ton
Back 10 Nature under the eye Of "A skilled
physiciau-that is the sensible program. If
you trust to Old Doctor Nature unassisted. you
are pretty sure encounter disaster sooner
later.
Fresh air is By all odds the most efficient
antiseptic known TO science BY fresh air
mean ordinary cool moving air. AS appli-
cation for an indolent or unclean wound or ulcer
or burn it has no peer. But II must be applied
in the form Of mixture--equal parts Of air
and brains. Nature contributes the former; the
doctor adds the latter to the formula. \ dog
horse wild animal may do fairly we'll
with a wound treated by fresh air alone. for
animals have better stand in" with Nature
than we civilized mortals. Animals do not
dog may lick his wound with his tongue-the
only thing cleaner than hounds tooth. y
civilized human being had better not try the
experiment until he is first convinced his mouth
does not harbor disease germs
II the wound. burn ulcer be. kept at
rest, under suitable screen to keep off insects
and prevent contact with bcdclothinG, there Is
no dressing comfortable than just room
open air Excessive discharge promptly
diminishes disappears. Unpleasant odor is
removed. Pain ceases, Healing proceeds
with incredible speed Just air is ef-
fcient less irritating antiseptc than any
chemical
How apply air is technical problem which
only the doctor can solve when the patient must
he about. Various screens frames may be
constructed to keep everything but air from
contact with the open surface. The method has
proved a happy one in the great Cook County
Hospital Chicago. II will be widely employed
when il becomes better known. II is no more
available for self-treatment for unskilled
hands than skin grating. 1t is as simple as
skin grating but alas, the simplest things are
the hardest do in surgery.
Questions md Answers.
Doctor SurGicaly Removes Pin w orms-A
| boy of nine. healthy heretofore. began having
attacks of abdominal pain vomiting, rightly Of
| right muscle, tenderness right lower
! quadrant temperature around I02 Appendicitis
was diagnosed. At operation the distal OF the
| very long appendix appeared dubbed. On open
| ing the appendix the dilatation proved to be
| due of pin worms. This was new
| one on me. is IL rare?
AuSwer-It Is rare. comparatively. Still, a
! long list of such has been reported in
| recent years. Probably the appendix makes a
| comfortable depot or headquarters for pin
! worms in many cases. In the colon III that
I neighborhood the larvae mature The
/ adult worms then descend to the lower bowel
! Rattlesnakc Oil Supersttion--Plcasc tell me
! for rheumatism
Answer--we don't know. why not try hunt.
ing your own Snake-We that would
do more good than any oil.