Show I I Surgery's Splendid Hour By HERBERT KAUFMAN tOO EA I H Hone clone reveals the secrets of life medicine life medicine has always t tV h been a very heavy debtor to war Therefore this colossal a il It the very perihelion of surgical progress is furnishing ink ime ot It incalculable value Future r generations will trace trae immeasurable benefits from front the I 1 now taking place on European battle grounds B Jt t is i is impossible to o estimate the si significance of the operations er orm ormed d in the field hospit hospitals ls The biggest men of every country with the armies working under con conditions that peace cannot mg their skill by incessant practice on living subs sub- sub ets s han handling lin more cases per hour than they normally dealt withla with th I la l da day forced by the demands upon their attention to move with 1 ning rapidity to take chances impermissible under standard W We Ve already hear of incisions stitches and methods of drainage Such loch lIch pi p mused unbelievably to reduce certain mortality figures mazin s have been discovered The application of the h his hi t i reduced educed to a certainty Bone mortising skin skin the UK- restoration of destroyed features are so o completely I lied that nothing seems too too miraculous for expectation Fevers are understood as never before Pus and gangrene have been robbed of their terrible power Strange instruments are being constantly invented and appliances appliances appliances ances for the straightening of crippled limbs and the restoration of vitality to salvaged members The vast number of maimed and blinded soldiers has appalled the economists For the first time in history a thorough attempt has been made to plan special occupations for these unfortunates so that they may become self supporting The vision of a million legless armless sightless men wandering over the continent has stirred ingenuity to devise mechanical and magnetic limbs with which they can take their place in the ranks of wage ear earners earners rs and remain contributing members of society Thank God there are a few credits to be QC entered upon this awful ledger page Copyright 1916 by Herbert bert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights reserved |