Charlevoix county herald., 1918-12-27
OZONE SPRkED
upon WOUNDS
SIMPLE "opeN-AlF" TREATMENT
Is DECLARED TO HAVE BEEN
USED WITH SUCCESS.
APPLIED TO BROKEN LIMBS
Whirlpool Bath for Stiff Joints II
France; Exercises to Restore
Mobility.

France; Exercises to Restore
Mobility.
London.--A medical writer who
vas taken through several of the mill
tary hospitals in London by Col. A. s.
WOODWARD, assistant director OF the
Army Medical Services for the Lon
don Districts. writes in The Express
concerning new and improved meth
DDS OF caring for wounds:
AT Queen Alexandra's Military Hos.
pital saw several patients undergo
ing new healing treatment. Two
of these men were most severely
wounded last year and for 10 months
had been treated in the customary
way without any sign of healing.
They were brought to Millwall. the
bandages were flung away. the
wounds were subjected to repeated
applications Of a steam OF ozone, be.
ing lightly covered with loose layer
CT 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 machine which converts
it into ozone; the ozone flows out
through 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. l saw here a
soldier who had lost his right foot,
with a stump covered 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
solder with bad compound fracture
OF the leg. The limb Is not swathed
in many yards of bandages as was
the custom, but lies between sand
bags to secure immobility and is COW
cred only with single layer Of lint.
The lint is kept constantly wet with
an antiseptic fluid (peroxide of hydro
sen). Surrounding the leg is a large
cage covered with a sheet of thin
butter muslin, 80 that the wound is
continually refreshed by a free cur
rent of air. Extremely rapid healing
and freedom from the agony of man.
ipulation are the great gains from
this mode of treatment.
THE whirlpool bath is entirely o
war invention, from which excellent
results in cases of stiff joints have
been obtained in France. AS l saw
it at some of the military hospitals
visited, 1t consists of a small oblong
hath, filled with water which is kept
in continuous movement by a minia-
ture propeller revolved at very high
speed by means of an electric motor.
A stiff arm or leg, hand or foot, placed
IN the bath and kept there for some
time is much improved by the stimu-
lul OF the running water.
Marvellous examples of bone car
pentry are to be seen, such as the
transference Of a large piece of bone
from the leg to fill gap in the arm
b1ne or jaw.
"All sorts of joint injuries go to
Hammersmith Hospital, and there, as
well as at other hospitals, 1t is to be
seen a collection of ingenious exer-
cisers for restoring mobility. When
the surgeon has done all that he can
tie patient goes to the masseurs and
the exercisers. II his wrisl Is stiff,
he twists a bar with graduated resis-
lance; If he cannot fully close his
hand, he grasps thick bar and turns
IL, passing on to thinner and thinner
bars as the hand improves; the patti
ent with a stiff knee is put to exer
else on stationary bicycle; others.
according to the nature and situa-
ton of the defect. practice rowing,
climbing ladders. pulling on weighted
ropes; and with these curative exer.
Uses Is combined massage, with cleo
trio treatment, and other remedies.
What is being done by our greatest
psychologists and chemists in the
laboratories Of the Royal Army Med.
ical College to prevent war diseases.
to cope with the enemy gas poisons
and tear shells, ETC., would take an
article to itself to describe. Here the
vaccines are made to secure the men
against typhoid fever, which used to
be more fatal in war than the bayonet
and the bullet combined; paratyphoid
lever, SO rare formerly, so common
now in France; the cholera of Sa-
JGniki and Egypt; pneumonia. one of
the soldiers worst trench enemies In
cold weather; and other diseases COM
mon in camp and trench.
About 100000 doses of these vac
cines have been sent out from Mill.
wall since the war began. Among
them is a most valuable mixed vac.
cine which gives protection from both
typhoid and the two forms OF paraty-