The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-06
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 =
Microbes-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 Involuntary with pain every
day when the bandages are removed
and the wounds treated.
At Queen Alexandras 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 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 reservoir into
an electrical machine which converts
it 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
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 Success.
Here was seen a soldier who had
lost his right foot, with stump Gov
cred with skin so healthy and hard
that he could walk upon it, a surgical
marvel.
What might be called the open-air
treatment of wounds has come to stay.
At the Herbert hospital is soldier
with bad compound fracture OF the
leg. The limb is not swathed in many
Yards of bandages as was the custom,
but lies between sandbass to secure
immobility and is covered only with
single layer of lint. The lint is kept
constantly wet with peroxide of by
drogen. Surrounding the leg is large
cage covered with sheet of thin but
ter muslin, so that the wound is con-
tinually refreshed by free current OF
air. Extremely rapid healing and
freedom from the agony of Inanipula-
ton are the great gains from this
mode of treatmen
The whirlpool bath is entirely war
invention, from which excellent results
in cases of stiff joints have been OBJ
tanned in France. 1t consists of a
small oblong. bath, filled with water
which is kept in continuous movement
by miniature propeller revolved at
a very high speed by means of an cleo
trio 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 carpen-
try are to be seen, such as the trans
ference of large piece Of bone from
the leg to fill Il 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 to the masseurs and the exercis-
,ers. If his wrist is stiff he twists
bar with graduated resistance; If he
cannot fully close his hand he grasps
thick bar and turns it, passing on to
thinner and thinner bars as the hand