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Striking medical victories scored by British surgeons amid the muck and terror of the recent Allied withdrawal from Flanders were noted in London last week by the authoritative Lancet...
...French surgeons that the plaster casts must be quickly ripped off and stinking human members amputated. The French soon learned, however, to let plastered Spanish wounded alone, observed that, while the odor for a time became almost unbearable, the end result was nearly always satisfactory. Last week the British Lancet said nothing about a heroic stench, said flatly that results of the Barcelona method have been so good in Flanders that from now on suturing applied on the battlefield must be considered "almost criminal...
Quoting Dr. William Heneage Ogilvie of London, especially enthusiastic about plaster, the Lancet summed up: "Once a wounded man has undergone efficient surgical treatment and has been put in plaster, he is safe-he may be blown out of an ambulance, derailed in a train, crashed in an aeroplane or torpedoed at sea, he may be left for weeks in a cellar . . . but so long as the plaster holds he will come to no harm." French surgeons in the War of 1870 pioneered the plaster closed method and in World War I it was used to some extent...
...which have since been used in medicine, though generally in smaller doses than I took. I think I hold the record for the amounts of ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure of Men to Carbon Dioxide," he reprints his Lancet article on an experiment he made in connection with the Thetis disaster. This study, as its author points out, has both stylistic and factual interest for the average reader...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...