Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-02
OZONE SPRAYED
UPON WOUNDS
S NIPPLE "OPEN.AiR" TREATMENT
is DECLARED TO HAVE BEEN
USED WITH SUCCESS. ~
APPLIED TO BROKEN LIMBS
Whirlpool Bath for Stiff Joints In
France; Exercises TO Restore
Mobility.

Mobility.
London.-A medical writer who
was taken through several OF the mill
tary hospitals III London by Col. 4. 5.
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 AIeXandia's Military Hos.
pital | saw several patients undergo
ing new healing treatment. Two
OF these men were most severely
wounded last year and for ~ months
had been treated in the customary
way without any sign of healing.
They were brought to MilWal, the
bandages were flung away, the
wounds were subjected to repeated
applications Of steam of ozone, be,
ing lightly covered with loose layer
Of lint in the intervals. and in four
days healing was in rapid progress.
This treatu cnt is simplicity itself.
oxygen passes from 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 PATIENT
bed. the wound uncovered. ana "a
flows into the deepest reccsses. No
painful dragging OF of bandagCs, no
rebandaGing OF the limb to hurt and
exhaust the patient. | saw here d
soldier who had lost his right foot,
with stump covered with skin So
Healthy and hard that he could walk
upon it, a surgical marvel.
What might be called the opcn.air
treatment Of wounds has come to
stay. At the Herbert Hospital is a
soldier with bad compound fracture
Of the leg. The limb is not swathed
in many yards of bandagcs as was
the custom, but lies between sand
bags to secure immobility and is COW
cred only with a single layer Of lint.
Tie lint is kept constantly wet with
an antisepiiC fluil (pcroXide Of hydro
GEM, Surrounding the leg is larae
cage covered with sheet of thin
butter muslin, so that the wound is
continually retire she'd by a free cur
rent Of an Extremely rapid healing
and freedom from the agony Of N. II
irulation are the great ga.Is from
this mode of treatment.
THE whirlpool bath is entirely a
war invention, from which excellent
results in cases Of stiff joints have
been obtained in France. AS | saw
it at some of the military hospitals
hath, filled with water which is kept
in continuous movement by minia-
ture propeller revolyed at a very high
speed by means Of an electric motor
A stiff arm or leg, hand or foot, placed
N the bath and kept there for some
time is much improved by the stimu-
IT, of the running water.
Marvellous examples Of bone car
pentry are to be seen, such as the
transferencc Of a large piece of bone
from the leg to fill a gap in the arm
hene or jaw.
'All sorts Of joint injuries 90 to
Hammer5mith Hospital, and there, as
well as at other hospitals, it is to be
seen a collection Of ingenious cNer-
cisers for restoring mobility. When
the surgeon has done all that he can
TIC patient goes to the masseurS and
the eXcrCiSCrs. III his wrist is stiff,
he twists a bar with graduated rcsis-
tance; if he cannot fully close his
hand. he graBps thick bar and turns
it, passing Oh to thinner and thinner
bars as the hand improves; the pau
INT with a stiff knee is pat to eEer-
else on q stationary bicycle; others,
according ITO the nature and situa-
ton of the defect, practice rowing,
climbing ladders, pulling on weighted
ropes; and with these curative cxcr-
discs is combined massage, with cicc-
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
raccines are made to secure the men
against typhoid fever, which used to
b. more fatal in war than the bayonct
and the bullet combined; paratyphoid
fever, so rare formerly, 50 common
now in France; the cholera OF Sa-
Ioniki and Egypt; pneumonia, one of
the soldiers worst trench enemies in
Geld weather.; and other diseases COM
mon il g. and trench.
"t.b, 100000 doses of these vac
cities 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-
phoid fever"