Bipp Treatment Of War Wounds
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491_9781443774161
PREFACE WAR has taught surgeons once more the value of Lord Listers work on the use of antiseptics in Wound Treatment, and now it has been proved that with their aid primary union after suture of infected, suppurating wounds is possible. A long surgical experience may be of the greatest value, but in my case it was a handicap, for it took me a long time to realise the truth of what I saw -so opposed was it to all ordinary surgical canons. This small book has been written by request as a War contribution, and in it I have endeavoured to avoid two dificulties which I feared. The first concerned an explanation of our results which I knew would plunge me into ventures from which I could v- not escape unscathed the second was to avoid any over-estimation, from excess of enthusiasm, of the value of this method of wound treatment. The best manner of accomplishing these ends seemed to be by limiting the informa- tion offered to what I knew, and by rejecting ally other matter, however interesting it might be. The book is an account of our net hod of Wound Treatment, and it is so simple that a clever surgeon is unnecessary for the achieve- ment of the best results, though a careful one is essential treatment during the last twenty years had reached such perfection that surgeons had almost concluded that thev were masters of the situation when the War came and awakened them to reality. Many then expressed the view that War wounds were as bad as those of fifty years before, but that was because few had actual experience of so long ago. The War wounds were bad enough-painful , incapacitating, healing slowly and with large indurated scars, but, however ill they made their victim, seldom deadly those of fifty years ago, especially when involving bones, terminated as often in death from septic infection as in recovery-a difference of vital importance. The explanation is simple. Our War wounds, after treatment was instituted, were spared further infection from outside the wounds o
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