Show Daily Health Service n By flIt nR MORRIS EIN In the the great surgical clinics today you ou will find ind many machines which have proved of oC Immense importance in ill saving human life First you will see great b batteries of oC steam sterIlizers ers that destroy germs on bandages linens md and instruments Instead of depending on just one anesthetic the modern sur surgeon eon has hasa a 1 choice of oC ether nitrous o oxide oxy gen ethylene and other anesthetic mixtures of gases New types of machines have do- do which arran arrange e and mix the material accurately and supply them to the surgical patient safely and regularly I There arc especially built ray Xray machines for lor use Ue in the operating In the perform performance or of the surgical operation opel machines now are arc available available avail avail- able which cut and seal the tissues tissue of the bod body by u. u us-c us c of an electric knife There Ire are electrically driven saws and machines which make clips take the place of oC silk for stitching the skin In the physical therapeutic depart ments of the hospital more machines come to light There are devices which provide violet ultra rays Other Oth- Oth er apparatus applies heat to the bOdy by b- buse use of oC electric light liht by burning burn burn- ing of oC carbons with reflectors and by passing electric current through h the tissues Many hours would be required even to list devices used in the dia lOSiS and treatment of toda today Their names are complicated and their uses highly technical The raph the polygraph the raph and the electro electro- cardiograph are devices which pro vide records on a visible scale of chan changes es in the pressure the pulse puls and the motions or of varIous tissues and fluids There are autom automatic devices used for Cor giving blood tr transfusions Machines Machines Ma- Ma chines are used for injecting air into the lungs so as to produce collapse of the lung or artificial thorax and thus rest the lung in tu- tu There are devices for pulling the arms and 2nd the legs thus holding the fragments of bone in place in treat treatment ment of oC fractures dislocations AU All great discoveries in mechanics in physics in chemistry in engineer ing and in other are bein being applied to save human life Use of these machines has added somewhat to cost of medical care but it has made the treatment of oC disease more certain more safe and more title Physicians are developing mean or of using such mch machines jointly in hospitals and in groups of oC offices s to te male make their use less costly to the Individual In In- patient However no machine ma- ma chine is any more valuable than the brains of the man behind hind it No machine ma ma- chine cn can make malte a diagnosis or remove remove re re- move n a brain tumor or an appendix The doctor docor who interprets the elec- elec tracing or the ray Xray picture the surgeon who manipulates kites lates the electrical saw aw or the electrical elec- elec knife he and not the machines tc 15 the vital element clement in your medical care TO ODORS Vinegar ar can be useful in ing smells If milk has boiled over on the stove or n a milk pudding has been placed in a too hot oven O and so boils over you'll find that a few dashes of oC vinegar on the soiled places will quickly remove the most or of- c odor made by burned or over boiled milk Some vinegar boiled In a fish pan will quite remove the fishy odor And dr dry must mustard will do its bit in removing ing the odor ot of fish ish from your hands |