Word: shrapnel
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...only medical facilities near the jungle battlefields were two hospitals in northern Peru belonging to a Standard subsidiary. Company ambulances, planes and trucks hauled casualties of both armies to its hospitals, which set up extra cots in halls and patios. "We spent days removing pieces of shrapnel and bullets from the wounded," wrote Dr. Lewis Eraser last week in The Medical Bulletin...
...London to write some of the most vivid stories of World War II (see p. 26). Three of the 22 landed on the Dieppe beaches and got back alive. Only casualty was International News Service's Larry Meier, who was cut in the face and chest by shrapnel but got himself patched up and wrote his story...
...special blackout street lamp has been announced by General Electric. It is made of plastics and cast iron, with no glass, hence is fairly immune to shrapnel. The lamp is 9 candle power, gives one-sixtieth the illumination of full moonlight, i.e., barely enough to distinguish a pedestrian at 40 feet...
When a soldier is wounded by shrapnel, or a civilian by splinters of flying glass, don't treat the wound with an antiseptic. This piece of advice was given by the Journal of the American Medical Association last week. In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The use of iodine or mercurials in such wounds is to be discouraged or even forbidden." Reason: antiseptics may kill more body cells than bacteria, thereby prevent healing. First Aiders should do no more than stop bleeding, place a pad of sterile gauze on the wound...
Since the old scourge of tetanus can be controlled by injections of antitoxin, the main germ to worry about in open wounds is the bacillus which causes gas gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...