South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-17

of this war is the way i'm watch
strange and unexpectedly things
have suddenly become enormously
in demand and expensive and diff
cult t. set in proportion. r. for
instance. 20 years ago any one had
mentioned rubber or cotton as one
OF the vital necessities of war he
would have been laughed az. The SUR
geon could feel quite comfortably
safe then about the THINGS which he
would be in need of from these
two, from one. gloves and drain
age tubes. form the other. Eauze
and absorbent cotton.
Now, one of the sternest practi-
/ cal difficulties which confronts the
I hospital is how TO rescue enough
/ rubber for its purposes from the
NAV of the eyer-dey0uring motor.
/ and cotton for its DRESSINGS from
/ the seething watts iu which the soft
white. innocent stuff is turned i'm
/ TO fierce and deadly explosives of
/ the gun-cotton and nitro families
in the case Of rubber the doctor
/ has the slight consolation of know
/ ing that part. az least, of this keen
competition is between two humani-
/ ties-the ruber tires Of the bless
! ed and unspeakably useful motor
ambulance against his gloves and
/ irrigation tubes II would scarcely
F be too much 10 say that these two
! uses of this curious Negeta BILE sum
+ tires and tubes-have done more
TO lessen the sufferings of the
wounded than any other two things
in this war
The old proverb should be re-
vised TO read. There's nothing
/ like rubber"
one of the grayest practical diff
fculties which the spread of the
Carrel treatment had TO fight next
after the native inertia of "a GER
tain type of surgical mind was the
/ scarcity and expensiveness of rub
I Der The second part of the Carrel
/ method which comes after the de-
! bridement requires rubber tubinS
/ literally by the yard, for every pa
tient
1t was fatally easy for those.
who, on various grounds, We're I'M
willing TO adopt the treatment 10
! cry out: ooh. we can't possibly
secure all that quantity of rubber
tubing, or stand the expense if we
couIdl'
R,,+ as the total cost of am irri-
cation continent - sveragine I'VE
wards of timing TASKS nozzles.
c1fns and an i0crud. lis little
under three dollars .9 lasts a
month thar arrrnent does not sur
,.i,-s ,,,,.b Investigation Consid- D.
.,f,o -4,-+ 70 sr,,-.-. tho time OF
1esIir IN ~, average ore-ha1f
and sometimes saves the pstient's
strarr-b bv diminishing sunerine
and -,s,l.elr,. rsesare The need for
ar,nr,+atfor uo good business man
,ro-,I5 hestf+sto n-on,eor over
.,,ot, o., i-,,.-e--,e,--
No.. f,.+.r.o ONO NJ o,,~ hest
'l,,o,,-,, A-,.~ica,, e-r.aors i'm
r-,..nca nv Tose,t. u1arxa has the
,.....T -o,~..7 ~ t,.,+f,., eoo e,,o-
.a-sizo serious casee on rhfs metho5
,t+b orf,. fo,,. s,,n-+atiore And
o.,'f,.- 80 i+s ,,oef+fo0 orI,. rave
,asos- nos+r,. tadlv shattered and
.,.rt~-a~.5 f,-s.--,as f,,ll,. "a third
M trero raieinr serious question OF
commandments sent TO his hos
,.i+al
Tbo oori,voo,+ fo,. irriratir,
80. ,ooi, sr5 co,rar Of the
.os T.. - nose f~oorio,,s ard
!; ,1.Lara+a - ~ -ba rarreI traa+
,,e,,+ indeed from the fact that
4. q. 60. ,bo ,,o-+ rart visible and
cors.a1t1,. - he seem in operatior
IN 49,. H. ,.i.itorg - the
- - 49,, ,,.t1Io Io,,o .o,,r-e
~ bca1ins Il has come 70 he look
al ,,ro, as heir- The treatment IT,
eIe
II oro eanea r. is extremely sim
~ ,,,a~o1,- - ..as,-sbarad flael, or
[,,r,al Of DoL-ir,e fluid known as
an,,o,,1o e,,epan3ad ON an nm.
81 ro5 fsstaned to the head 81
~ t.o5 v-itr a 1ons rrbber tube
.1a,5;,,a, f~or, it's lower onanina
sov-n TO inst above the wound
,,.bo~, - brooke nm into number
49, +,,r,as Tba ar,no,..o +.
- about tbreo or fou- feel
49, +bo loroI ~ tho n,st,ras.
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