Show TOBACCO BLAMED IN TRENCH FOOT Medical Officers Study Disease Disease Disease Dis Dis- Dis- Dis ease ease Prevalent in Army and in Trenches By Bv Associated Press W WASHINGTON May 1 a IS Preparations for tor safeguarding safeguarding- onre the health of ot American soldiers In Europe Include exhaustive studies b by officers of or tho the arm army medical department of oC new now diseases dis dis- cases eases or 01 those previously pre known which are arc found round to be bo more prevalent in the rm 1 army than In civil iI life None has attracted more attention I Ithan than trench toot foot foot tho the subject of or a bulletin tanned from the tho office of uC the surgeon ur con general presenting the tile conclusions i of or prominent men who have o in investigated In In- atc the this malad malady in Fran France Fran c. c Although the Is a pronounced accompaniment of or trench warfare its genesis Is referable primarily to cold coId Among Amon tho lie predisposing factors curiously curiously curi curi- enough h is tho the excessive use of or tobacco which it Is asserted para- para lyes the nerve nerve ends of the vasomotor n nerves other factors being lack of or ac- ac to colt cold enfeebled circulation circulation tion un under er nourishment and loss of or orI kei I er Fundamentally trench foot Is nothIng nothing noth noth- ing Ins hut frost bite hite a aggravated n by war conditions As iS tI feet be begin to 10 swell there Is pain pali around the ankles or 01 In I I parts pans of ef tho thic le leg where circulation I Is not mit stopped Pat Patients lents obtaining treatment treatment treat treat- ment In Carl early stages of the lie disease e soon MOon lose the tho numbness s of oC thou their limits and the normal color returns Where here treatment Is dela delayed and apil UIt the tho case I Is aggravated b by tight shoes or s 's the f feet ct may have ha a dead gangrenous a appearance 11 p l lra ra nC Mild cases eaRN arc cured red in j three weeks s while severe fc ca cases es may require amputation I The mechanical a pressure duo due to tight puttees puttee le leggings a and shoes is a t large e causative factor warns the bulletin bul hul- letin That crime a common commonsense commonsense sense tn c. c the tile spiral puttee shrinking a aIt ai as asit It does docs as much as sixth one of If Its length when wet Ivet especially especial has had many victims The Tho methods of oC lumber jaCks jaeks In the northwest tt who wear o crl oversize slIces shoes and boots hoots and carefully dry their stock stockings inks ink's at every cry opportunity were cited as excellent prevention The Tile vitali vitally important consideration In treatment or op trench fool foot In is said to tn hc he precaution that the tho feet should not lint be too suld warmed All tho the cx- cx cf et th the foreign n armies was up lip In ill a H few words ICe p the thc feet as warm and dry as cp Ip good blood circulating in iii them if f 0 o f chilling docs occur rc- rc h circulation slowly lowly and nut not by re-I re warm applications |