SURGERY
IT*
By W°ode Hutchinson, A. M-i M, D
Inc world• nest Known writer on Med
loal Subjects.
llua war Uas been as utirren ol any
ining new and interesting in surge: y
as in everyluiug eise. simply a Oleary
waste vi uiuu anu uioou ml sutugutvi
Man uas reverted tbiee-vtuariora ot a
minion years at one sw eep, ba M to
the blood-sucking, burrowing vermlm
null eirret, half nedge-bog, from
winch be originally sprung.
There once was a thing called war,
certain selected parts of wnlch could
be spoken of wltnout disgust and hor
ror, but now men burrow down Into
holes In the ground to tight and are
blown ou*. again by bigh explosives ho
that their fragments are scattered all
over the surrounding landscape
When the great insanity lirst bro'cs
out we fatuously con-trutulted on
selves that this was going to be a
humane war. so far as wounds and tneli
randhng was concerns 1. The modern,
imall caliber, high velocity bullet .vst
the most humane ar.d gentle killer ever
invented, w« burbled. The wounds
drilled by it were as small and clean
us gimlet boles; the heat generated in
the rifle barrel had made it absolutely
sterile, and the tissues on each side
of it were half pulped, half seared, so
that almost no hemorrhage followed
unlese a large artery was pierced.
What We Expected.
If the bullet happened to pass
through the heart, or aorta, or the base
of the brain—the upper and target
part, where the thinking Is supposed
to be done, could be drilled through
with perfect Impunity, thoughts being
bullet-proof—the patient's l^fe went
out with the bullet before he even
knew what had hit him, swiftly and
painlessly.
If some non-vital part of the body
was drilled through, you merely put a
patch over each end of the hole to
keep the patient from catching cold
in his interior from the draft that blew
through it, kept him in bed for a few
days, and sent him back to be reper
forated In another spot.
This hope was based upon our actual
experience in the Boer and Japanese
wars, where the damage done by mod
ern bullets in non-vltal spots was so
surprisingly slight, and the wounds
healed so quickly, that It was actually
proposed by eminent surgeons that
some sort of small bullet-proof shield
should be devised, just big enough to
protect the head and heart, which
could be worn or carried by the soldier,
as nits in ail uie rest of me body
y. aciicadiy didn't count.
xnueeu, some ot file English regt
mUia were experimenting wun such u
..cu-ueart smevu in tne eariy mumus
.1 uie piesont war, wane the rule
us still supposea to be a dangerous
.. eayon.
A Shattered Dream.
But the hist couyle of dozen bulie
■iis from the ironl snaltered this rosy
vision into smitheereeus. first, came
.uud and bitter complaints from both
-ides that the othe. side was violating
.ne rules of w m ,md using dum-dum
juilets, making tunnels the size of ft
-loveyipe through the body, lnstea
clean-drilled a ger-holes.
The tunnels were there In painful
abundance, but when the whole thing
vs siftedf down, the expiantion ap
,eared to resolve itself Into three pans,
irst, that any private soldier that had
i grouch on could convert the most
espectable regulation bullet Into a
•um-iium In three minutes or less, slm
■ly by ripping open the steel Jacketing,
jr flatten.ng the nose of it on a atone
.r filing a couple of nicks above the
collar.
Second, that any pencil-shaped bui
et which happened to ricochet from
he ground, or glance from a tree, or
-trike any other obstacle in its flight,
would either become bent Into a cres
cut or turned sideways and strike
jroad-slde on, making the unfortunat
target" look as If he had been hit by
i flying stove-lid, ur the blade of a
yroken propeller.
What Really Occurred.
Third, that If the flying death nap
ueiieu to strike or even scrape a bone,
,r a tough tendon, or sometimes, foi
.10 reason whatever except Its own
,weet will ,lt would either mushroom
.n the most approved and horriDK
I Jtyle, or "Jellify’' everything Within
I naif a yard of It, including lungs, livei,
! xidney, heart, or brain9, if they hap
pened to lie within that radius. Sc
.hat the boasted "humanity” of the
modern high-speed bullet was not
what had been claimed, though a con
^.derable proportion of Its wounds wen
clean, bloodless, and astonishingly
.julck healing.
But the moment tht the open air and
daylight fighting stopped and the mur
dering underground in the dark be
ian, another sinl.-ter Influence cam.
into play, which changed the face oi
.lie game entirely, and swept half oui
notions of modern military surgery
onto the scrap healp. This was the
honlble preponderance of wounds
mauo by shell, shrapnel and other ar
Jilory high exploslvee. over all othe
sorts of Injuries.
;'o make matters still worse, these
aping, lacerated, unclosabie rents and
avitles were not even clean. On the
or.trary, they wero driven and packed
full of every conceivable kind of filth,
rum the soil surrounding the trenches,
lul led before it by the shell In burst
mg from the cellar-Uke hollow which
.1 made in the ground.
But It didn't take the surgeon long
u get their breath back. We already
ad a remedy against lock-jaw, and
when ail shrapnel wounds were or
dered dressed with tetanus antitoxin
ust as we now dress all Fourth ol
July top pistol wounds, It was only
■ few weeks before cases of tetanu
iegan to diminish and soon entirely
.-eased to appear.
The gangrene germs were eagerly
pounced on by our laboratories an
uit through the inocultion mill. With
: three weeks we were on the road
0 victory and had developed a serum
hich would quickly clean up all but
f:e worst and most malglnant cases
f the dreaded gangrene.
The Germ Danger.
Fur Juet plain dirty wounds which
vere too big or the tissues about them
to badly shattered to close, It was
'ound that a special hot water lrrlga
inn dressing worked admirably, while
or others xposure to direct sunlight
'or several hours each day was the
iest cure.
So that modern surgery Is now
quipped to deal with even the worst
trocltles of this devil's brew called
nndern war, providing that there Is
nough patient left to keep the wounds
n-ether until they can be made to
heal.
'f these who are left sufficiently In
ne piece lo be carried off the field ut
11. onl three per cent die, ninety
even out of every one hundred recov
1 Of those who are whole enough to
each the base hospitals, ninety-nine
er cent recover, while there are Eng
lsh and French home hospitals which
.ave a record of thousands of wounded
vlth a loss of only about four to the
thousand.
Surgery Is doing Its best to save
nan from his own blood-madness, but
it Is only a melancholy sort of prtdi
.vhlch It can take in its achievement.—
N'ew York American.
To get the news read the Nugget.
Funny things would happen it all
states permitting boxing should take
up a scheme proposed by the New
York boxing commission to compel
lighters to use their real names.
Sport columns would be full of
such names as Anchol Anchovlts, An
drew Chlarlgllon, Jacob Isadore Tom
lich and Joe Ybarra, and there would
be fewer Flynns and O’Briens and
other good old Irish monikers.
Could Charley White the Chicago
knock-out, have gone as far as he
has If he had appeared under his real
name, which la Anchol Anchovltc?
Could Jim Flynn ever have worked
SMALL BOY KILLED
BY JOY BIDERS
A. P. A. Service.
SEATTLE. Jan. 18.—Dean, the flve
year-old son of R. L. Adcock, of 1614
Terry avenue, was run down and kill
ed last night by an auto driven by
Frank Llckenby, vice president of the
Charles H. Lilly Company. The child
was crossing the street as the auto
approached at considerable speed and
despite the efforts of Llckenby to
avoid a collision was struck down, two
wheels of the heavy machine suppos
eldy passing over his body. Realizing
the effects of his careless driving,
Llckenby collapsed and Is under the
care of a physician. The child died
after rbeing unconscious four hours.
In the machine with Llckenby were
two young ladlGS of his acquaintance,
the Misses Marla Stewart and Bertha
Irwin.
Tailing Garde at the Nugget Oflloe.
his way to a bout with Jack Johnson
with his right name—Andrew Chlar
igllon?
Some fighters adopt ring names be
cause they fear they couldn’t get by
with their right names.
Others are given names by referee? |
who say the first name they think of
when they can’t sneeze a fighter’s
right name.
Here’s a list of fighters' real names
and ring names:
Jose Ybarra .Joe River?
Jacob Isadore Tomlich.., Joe Thomas
Marie Thornbini . Jimmy Travers
Fred Hall Thomas.Freddy Welsh
SEATTLE CAPlir
ACCIDENTLY
ASPHYXIATED
A. P. A. Sarvica.
SEATTLE, Jan. 18.—Dennis Keller,
a retired capitalists of this city, was
accidentally asphyxiated last night
under circumstances of the most pe
culiar nature, according to the findings
of the police. To all appearances, the
capitalist, who was alone in his home
last night, caught his foot in a ga
heater while crossing the room and
fell heavily striking himself in such a
way that he was unable to rise.
In somo manner the shock of strik
ing the gas heater turned on the g
tube, allowing the gas to oscape freely
in the room. Keller was found somo
time latter dead, with the body show
ing that he had made a hard struggle
to reach the door to escape from the
Geary Steffen.Willie Ritchie
Morris Bloomenberg ...Morrie Bloom
Xattlan Xargolsky .Tom Cairo
Vito Caponagras .Willie Shaffer
George CIVpulones .George Chip
Valentine Braun.K. O. Brown
Robert Mucha .Bob Moha
Isadora Jatobowsky ....John Mervln
John Gutenko .Kid Williams
Arthur Price .Jack Dillon
George De Contas. .Greek K. O. Brown
Louis Margolis ....Mayo Mars
Ike Goldberg Joe Sherman
Wm Breslin ... .Jack Britton
Calling cards printed at Nugget office
deadly fumes. Keller was well known
In financial circles and was a pioneer
of the Puget sound section.
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