Show traumatic Shock Harvard 1 l Medical Expert Finds Far I Most Deadly in Trenches J I I lien rarely die of ot shell Men shock bock but they have been dying at the rate of ot a year In the English and French armies alone alone- as a 0 result of a afar atar atar tar far moro more deadly form of at shock shock tran traumatic matic shock says the Atlantic Monthly In fact the latter Is usually usually aU ally fatal when skilled assistance Is not at hand Dr William T. T Porter of ot the Harvard medical school chool has been sent Into the front line trenches In France to study this strange enemy In action Traumatic shock he found usually follows a u serious tincture fracture of ofa ofa a n major bone like the hip bone or multiple wounds through the subcutaneous subcutaneous sub cu laneous fat layer laJer By experimenting with wilh Injecting olive oil nil Into the veins elne of a n cut cat Dr Porter developed symptoms identical identical with those appearing in caSeS casts ol of traumatic shock confirming his belief helle that fatty futty globule are arc released into int the veins by certain wounds and there gradually clog do up the hairlike capillaries capil- capil Juries laries of or the tho brain until c circulation ceases rases as s. s Then began begau an Interesting se- se rles rius of ot experiments In the front line trenches in iu wh which ch Dr Porter tried the I experiment o of giving carbon dioxide to tJ o freshly fr Ehl wounded ouDIe men to prevent shock hock The were delighted ith his tests and crowded around Eagerly r to watch the operation I All of or these details together with many l keen and aud 1 humorous l' l inactions r f f a H trained observer in the war zone ve re e set down own In Dr pr Porters Porter's recently little book hook Shock at the runt In fact one well known Uc insists in that the book far from ciu a mere lUere medical treatise tl is isi i athor i ther a 11 glimpse of the war done In Inurn urn lP stroke by hy a physician who has hass s pretty pretty a with the pen as ith the flue scalpel |