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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

FRITZ E. OSTERKAMP New York City Royal Welch Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Shame on TIME for saying (May 15, p. 87) that Poet Robert Graves served as an officer with the "Royal Welch Fusiliers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Royal Welch Fusiliers have so spelled their name since the 17th Century. The spelling was officially confirmed by a British Army order in 1920, in recognition of the regiment's services during the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...night of March 23 the Sea Dragon was some 1,200 miles west of Midway Island. In the same seas, 40 feet high, the liner President Coolidge was running' through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Adventure | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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