Show ADVANCING SURGERY A contemporary compares modern firearms firearms' with the th ones and as asks s tho question if ift t the e arms have bave not lost their efficiency That certainly cannot be bc answered for forO two O Ore re reasons sons The Thc ancient arm was intended to kill kin the modern arm is is i d' d to disable as many manyas as possible le And then can be he made I be because because- of a a difference in modern and anc ancient ent surgery Many rany a wounded man is saved now who in the old days hurt the tho same way war would have certainly died The rite science of surgery has de developed faster than the firearm until at pres pres- cut almost every kind of gunshot wound that has not not destroyed d some some organ is cured The Tho change in iii surgery has amounted to a a revolution e i in iii the th last last twenty five years and an it has las conc oi too sin since c. c tIte cause a of a a great many deaths deaths' from deaths from wo wounds has been ascertained not to belong to the thc wound proper but hut to the invisible iu agents that in the old days ays made e a wound 1 it nursing place for Jor microbes and a near brother to death |