Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-16
HOSPITAL METHODS
REVOLUTTONIZED
BY THE WAR
Ozone Treatment of Slow-HeaI.
ing Open Wounds Has
Made Bandages I'm
necessary
CURES AS IF BY MAcro
Marvels Of Bone Carpentry and wst.-
Massage Are Preventing Per-
manent Deformity

LONDON, Sept. 1s.-.Bandar..
eliminated in the latest methods os 49,,
ins obstinate wounds here. This 4. -.
OF the marvellous developments Of .urv.-v
to which the war has given impetu.
One Of the horrors of hospitais 4. A..
ing wounds. Strong, brave men scream ~
voluntarily with pain every day when ~.
bandages are removed and the wounas
treated. s"e-
At Queen Alexandras Military so.r,,.,
today several patients were erh,b,,-s
nndergoins the new treatment. Two 81
these men were most severely wounded 4
September of last year. and for ten rnor,ts
had been treated In the customary vv.~
without any sign Of healing. On Auvu.s
they were brought to this hospital. ths
oandages were flung away. the wound,
were subjected to repeated applicatior.
Of n stream of ozone, being lightly cos,
cred with loose layer of lint an the "a
tervals, and in four days healing was n
rapid progress.
HOW OZONE IS ADMINISTERED
This treatment is simplicity ns,,t
Oxygen passes from reservoir int sr
electrical machine which converts n ,ntc
ozone; the ozone flows through a nns
metal tube. The machine is wheeled close
to the patients bed, the wound uncoyered
and stream OF the microbe-killins ozons
flows into the deepest recesses No main
ful dragging Off of bandages no re
bandaging Of the limb 20 hurt and ex-
haust the patient.
Here was seen a soldier who had lost
his right foot, with stump covered with
skin so healthy and hard that he coul6
walk upon II, surgical marvel
What might be called the open a,r
treatment of wounds has come TO stay.
At the Herbert Hospital is a soldier with
a bad compound fracture of the leg Ths
limb is not swathed in many yards of
bandages as was the custom, but lies be-
tween sandbags to secure immobllity and
is covered only with a single layer Of
lint. The lint is kept constantly wet with
peroxide OF hydrogen. Surrounding the
leg is largo cage covered with n sheet
OF thin butter muslin so that the wound
Is continually refreshed by a free cur
rent of air. Extremely rapid healing and
freedom from the agony Of manipulation
are the great gains from this mode Of
treatment
The whirlpool bath is entirely n war
Invention, from which excellent resuts
In cases of stiff Joints have been OBJ
tained in France. II consists Of small
oblong BATH, filled with water which d
kept in continuous movement by a minia-
ture propeller revolved at a very high
speed by means OF an electric motor. A
stin arm or leg, hand or foot, placed in
the bath and kept there for some time 10
much improved by the stimulus Of the
running water.
Marvellous examples of bone carpentry
are TO be seen, such as the transferencs
Of large piece Of bone from the leg to
fill gap In the arm bone or Jaw.
Trench foot is being more or less success.
fully treated by massage, operation and
other methods.
EXERCISE FOR STIFF JOINTS
All sorts of joint injuries 20 to Hammer
smith H0SDital 80
other hospitals. is to be seen a collection
OF ingenious exercisers for restoring mobil-
ity. When the surgeon has done all that
he can the patient goes to the masseurs and
the exercisers. If his wrist is stiff he
twists a bar with graduated resistance: n
he cannot fully close his hand he grasps
thick bar and turns It, passing on to
thinner ana thinner bars as the hand Inn
proves; the patient with stiff knee Is put
TO exercise on a stationary bicycle; others.
according to the nature and situation Of
the defect, practice rowing. climbing lad
ders. pulling on weighted ropes and with
these curative exercises Is combined mas
sage, with electric treatment, and other
remedies
In the laboratories of the Royal Army
Medical College vaccines are made to So
cure the men against typhoid fever. which
used to be more fatal In war than the
bayonet and the bullet combined para
typhoid fever. SO rare formerly so common
now In France; the cholera OF Salonica and
Egypt, and pneumonia, one of the soldiers
worst trench enemies in cold weather.
About ten million doses of these vaccines
have been sent out from Milwall since the
war began. Among them Is q most valu-
able mixed vaccine. which gives protection
from both typhoid and the two forms OF
paratyphoid fever. This has been In use
since January last. Quite new, since the
war began, are the measures taken for
discovering whether any one who comes II
contact with soldiers Is carrying the In
fection Of spotted fever at the back Of 7
his nose, for. although himself quite frse
from the disease, such a carrier might ore
ate an epidemic in a camp.
Serum, too. for the cure of spotted fever
is here made. and by its use the dsath Z
rate has been reduced from more thar
fifty per cent to twenty-nine per cent In
all cases. and as low as nine per cent when
the reunadx can ha llaad xxiihia ihraa daxn