Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations by the light of a kerosene lamp in French front-line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt...
...find as many as eight or ten perforations, the entire operation should not take more than 20 minutes. If he neglects the exploration, his patient is almost certain to die from hemorrhage or peritonitis. (Patients suffering from hemorrhage should have an H marked on their foreheads.to insure prompt treatment...
...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 sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance of blankets and hot water bottles to prevent chill; 3) plenty of warm, sweet tea to restore a proper water balance; 4) blood transfusion to avoid...
Patients wounded near the Thames will be carried down the river on converted pleasure steamers to central zone hospitals. At zone hospitals desperate cases will receive immediate attention, but all those who can survive will be immediately examined and shipped for surgical treatment to base hospitals in safe districts some 20 miles out of London...
...Ersatz foods. From sawdust Bergius has extracted a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which can again be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Apparently, up to the outbreak of World War II, food-from-sawdust in Germany was fed only to animals...