Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-07-25 | Page 14 | Surgeon Can Find No Clean Wounds

SURGEON tAN CAN FIND I If f 1 1 O GlEAN CLEAN WOUNDS f I. I I N L i JI July 25 Clean 25 Cle Clean n wounds apparently do donot not exist said Dr II S. S So Yar late surgeon In chief of thc field fJeld hospital In a a. lecture the Royal Roal Society of ot Medicine I Much has haa been written about out the clean lEin 0 un d J being left by the modern I 1 bullet un t but ut the do doctor tor never mc tact met one In his his' hl Is' Is v e experience In FI Flanders and anda a 0 colleague who had treated w wounds in th the present campaign con con- firmed l this opinion Every ery wound woun Is although all aU the organ organ- hn i. i produce disease p i r found It was i a mis taken Idea a a. a wounded man could apIs ap ap- ap- ap ply his Is tInt first dr dressing properly it tC d clean hands and noninterference t ference rence with the actual l wound His Instructions were that the skin around the wound should be disinfected d with Iodine c carbolic or even cven 2 ap P. P and water but the wound IM not be o t touched External ap- ap p nce of ot wounds aro often otten I ive iy Back flack of ot a a. small puncture In the tho ther B r m l e a ea cavity vity as as large as a r perhaps with Ith piece of ot shell or a I it E. E t at the bottom