Word: medicaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sir Frederick Banting, University of Toronto's professor of medical research and co-discoverer with John Macleod of insulin; as an officer in the 15th General Hospital, Canadian Army Medical Corps. In World War I Researcher Banting was wounded at Cambrai, France, won the Military Cross.
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30...
Though overworked army surgeons in World War I had to work thus, with a lick & a promise, great were the medical lessons they learned. Brilliant U. S. Neurologist Harvey Gushing, confronted with crowding thousands of head wounds such as he had never seen before, devised a dozen new brain operations...
Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive...
Medical Revolution. With the coming of war, almost all private medical practice ceased, for 95% of Britain's 61,000 physicians pledged their aid to the Government. Each physician who is assigned to an ambulance, first-aid post, or hospital, will draw a salary ranging from $2,500 to...