Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-17
SURGERY
FULLY UP TO DATE
Effectiveness Proved in Discus
sion on Rehabilitation OF
Human War Wreckage
PHILADELPHIANS TAKE PART
BY the Associated Press

Atlantic City, June 17.-Philadel
phians taking a leading part today in
a symposium of the American Surgical
Association on rehabilitation of human
wreckage of war learned that Amer
lean procedure is fully abreast of
the most advanced practice in Europe.
Sir Robert Jones, of Liverpool, and
Colonel Anton De Page, of the Belgian
medical corps. participated in the dis
cussion.
DIR. Robert G. lie Conte reported
upon results attending the delayed or
late extraction of intro thoracic pro-
jectiles, while DR.. Charles H. Frazier
discussed surgical problems encountered
in the reconstruction of peripheral nerve
injuries. Salvage of the hand by plastic
reconstruction was the topic of DR..
John B. Roberts, also of Philadelphia.
Doctor Muskowitz, of New York,
said nature was wonderful ally in
operative cases of chronic empyema
where special care was bestowed upon
the sterilization of the wound.
Blood Tests in Pneumonia
DR.. Solomon Soils Cohen, of Phil
adelphia, ), in describing before the As
sociation of American Physicians a new
method for testing pneumonia i'm
munity by means of the whole blood,
declared the bactericidal action of the
latter may readily be measured and
that it is far more sensitive indicator
of immunity to pneumococcal infec-
ton that the agglutination test; non
pathogenic organisms are killed by the
whole blood which possesses bacterici-
dal properties wanting after coagula- :
tion.
DIR. G. c. Bass said analysis of
blood examination of more than 10000
people living in Mississippi, in the
most malarious regions of the United
States showed malaria much more prev
alent in children than in adults. The
highest point is reached at seven years.
The greater relative frequency of ma :
laria in children is indicated by the
fact that more than so per cent of all
the malaria found was in persons under
twenty years of age. >
DR.. Alfred Stengel reported excel
lent results attained in the treatment
of eight cases of lobar pneumonia by
| intravenous injections of serum from
recently recovered cases of pneumonia.
Trench Fever's Persistence
Little has been said thus far, DR..
r. D. Rudolf told the convention, about
| chronic form of trench fever, which
may last for months and even years,
with a great tendency to develop into
an acute attack if the patient under
goes any strain due to hard work
physical or mental, producing pains
in various parts of the body, anemia
and heart disturbances. Many erro-
neously diagnosed affections really are
trench fever still lurking in the system
of ex fighting men and which may stay
with them indefinitely.
The suggestion of DR.. Simon Flexner,
head of the Rockefeller Institute, in his
annual address last night, that public
officials who fail to keep streets clean
and enforce health laws in large cities,
shall be held personally accountable by
voters for epidemics in their communi-
ties, caused n mild sensation among
delegates to the Medico- Surgical Con
| gress.
One application of the personal liza
bilfty indictment, DIR. Flexner said
would 90 further toward eliminating
slums than any amount of highbrow
Lappeals on moral grounds.