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Show What to Do to Stop Bleeding H during a boxing bout a boxer gets cut, the referee can decide whether it is severe enough to stop the bout. Fortunately, most experienced experi-enced referees are humane and will stop the bout rather than have the boxer's career cut short by further injury or infection. As medical examiner and physician physi-cian for a boxing commission and amateur athletic union, I encountered encoun-tered many cases of bleeding and tried to combine certain ehemicals that would stop the flow of blood within the minute between rounds. I had some success with adrenalin which is In general use by physicians physi-cians and dentists in stopping bleeding. bleed-ing. I was never able to find powder pow-der or liquid that the second or trainer could use between rounds and have his boxer ready within the minute. I did .come across two proprietary pro-prietary or patent medicines that were more successful than adrenalin adrena-lin but never knew what they contained. con-tained. That the human blood has within it a substance thrombin that causes the blood to clot is well known but naturally if flow is too rapid or too large or the blood itself it-self lacks enough of this substance; the flow will not stop. It would appear ap-pear that a similar substance can be obtained from the rabbit, and likely like-ly from the other animals also, according ac-cording to experiments reported in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, by Dr. E. L. Lozner and his associates, Harriet MacDonald, M. Finland, and F. H. L. Taylor, Boston. They observed the effect of rabbit thrombin on 11 patients bleeding from small wounds. Nine of the patients had a natural tendency to bleed easily and two patients had high blood pressure pres-sure which caused nose bleed. Dry powdered rabbit thrombin on a piece of gauze dampened in a salt solution solu-tion was applied directly to the wound. With one exception the bleeding stopped immediately; even in this one case the bleeding stopped on the second application of the thrombin powder. There were no poisonous effects from thrombin, a QUESTION BOX Q. Is angina pectoris ever entirely entire-ly cured? A. Angina pectoris is a group of symptoms. Attacks are often prevented- by rest, small meals and avoiding excitement. Q. Please define myocarditis and auricular fibrillation. A. Myocarditis is an Inflammation Inflamma-tion of the heart muscle or walls; not the valves. Fibrillation (cardiac) (cardi-ac) means irregularity or trembling of the auricle or heart chamber. |
