| Show great war has taught Us how to save save mere lives than it has cost by MAJOR G r A STEWART rockefeller the war has taught ua us how to save more lives than the war haa has cost I 1 1 I ho he countless improvements of practice both in la medicine and surgery ma made h in this war have hase advanced our science ericc half a century in four years in the value and technique of chlorination chlon nation or the use of some combination of chlorine for the destruction of malignant germs which gise ne nee rise to pus have bave been learned as never nener before there is no longer ina in good excuse for persi persistence dence of pus the development of the carrei carrel dakin method of treating all manner of 0 in infected fecil rounds by periodic irrigation with dakin fluid a non caustic lypo lipo chlorite marked an extraordinary advance and in this the method is aa a important as the fluid it is being taught to surgeons the world over out of 45 pati patients entA in the war demonstration hospital suffering from we ve returned 35 to the front is pus pui in the chest cavity it often follows pneumonia and hitherto has been highly fatal there has been an unusual amount of in new york this year of a very cry serious ape but the death rate has been lessened ess ened by tho the modern treatment other wonderful advances have been made for example in xray X ray bork ork in kno knowledge uledge of the gas bacillus which cauca a form of gangrene in the scrum treatment for prevention or cure of such diseases as typhoid fever icier lockjaw pneumonia mc in gitis etc these lessons will save far more live in the laug run than the war has ha coat |
