Word: shock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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January 13.--Dr. W. T. Porter on "Surgical Shock...
Little by little the accounts of the first German attack upon the American troops are coming in. The Teutons isolated a salient by a heavy barrage thus cutting off the men stationed there. An attack was launched in which apparently one company of shock troops took part. With the odds of ten to one the result could not be in doubt for long. The skirmish was short and furious; how many Germans were killed and wounded is difficult to ascertain as the attacking party carried back all its casualties...
...Corps was given the first of a series of lectures on first-aid by Dr. E. A. Darling '90 last night at the regular lecture hour. Dr. Darling discussing his subject in general by way of introduction, described in detail the manner of treating persons suffering from shock, under which category "shell-shock," the most frequent disability of the present war, is included. The emergency method of dealing with hemorrhages and simple fractures was also explained. Dr. Darling has divided the types of injuries under the common classification of those in which the skin is not broken and of those...
...enumerate the work into which members of 1917 have gone. Sufficient is it that they have gone. The class unity, revived, democratized, and enhanced almost to the sentimental, which always springs up just before men are to make the last parting of four years' association, has received a lasting shock. The class of 1917, more than any class which has preceded it for a half century, will be scattered to the four winds in the fulfillment of that work which lies ready for it to do. We must consider it as trebly unfortunate that this parting week of life...
...down from the post to the hospital until 4.30 with my wounded. I found him perfectly conscious and apparently not suffering. He seemed so strong and cheerful that I did not give up hope, although the doctor said he would die any minute, as the shock to his heart had been too great. Everything possible was done for him, and they allowed me to spend the night with him. He did not suffer at all, and talked rationally about the work of the section, and was much interested in the good news from France that just reached me. He lived...