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MONDAY. JANUARY 1, 1945^
MEDICINE AT
THE FRONT
Had this war been
fought under the medical
conditions that prevailed
in 1918, good as they were
for their period, 60,000
wounded soldiers would
not be alive today; 9,000
men who would have been
crippled for life would
not have been restored to
health* the Army’s death
rate from disease would
be twenty times higher
than it is, and the inci
dence of malaria in mos
quito - infested regions
would not have been re
duced by 75 per cent. This
good news was presented
by Maj. Gen. Norman T.j
Kirk, Surgeon General of
the Army, at the recent
meeting of the Association
of Military Surgeons. No
message could be more
heartening to the men in
the armed services and to
the families they have left
behind.
That this triumph must
be attributed in part to
the remarkable progress
made in the last 20 years
in surgery and in the treat
ment of injuries and di
sease with blood plasma,
the sulfa drugs and peni
cillin we all know. Equal
ly important but less ap
parent is the organization
which has been created to
; succor those who' have fal
en in battle or who have
been laid low by disease in
jungles, deserts and cap
tured cities threatened by
epidemics. In no war of
history could a belligerent
assert that 12,000 military
patients are discharged in
a week—the equivalent of I
52 divisions in a year. |
That such a record should j
have been established;
when the wounded andi
the sick had to be trans-j
ported hundreds and evenj
thousands of miles by j
steamer and by air from
remote battlefields testi
fies to the smooth working
of a system which is with
out parallel in large-scale
medicine and surgery.
Rear Admiral Luther S.
Mclntire, Jr., completed
the picture by his account
of what the Navy has
done. Two hours after!
men were landed in Nor
mandy the first men to
fall were on their way to
hospitals in England. A
generation ago . they
would have lain helpless
for a day. As in the Army,
the record of lives saved
is striking. Only 2.3 per
cent of the wounded in
the Navy and the Marine
Corps now die. Contrast
this with 8 per cent in the
last war and again we see
what progress in science
and brilliant organization
can accomplish.
This war is undoubted
ly the most destructive
and bloodiest in history, j
But it is also a war fought
with an unprecedented
economy in lives. It now
remains to be seen how
far the men who have
suffered permanent injur
ies and whose minds have
been affected can be re
habilitated. On this phase
of medicine Brig. Gen.
Frank T. Hines spoke
hopefully. It is a phase
which calls for far-reach
ing plans. It is a difficult
phase, because the chron
ically ill and the perma
nently disabled have not
received anything like the
attention that is paid to
the injured or the acutely
ill. If the task of rehabili-|
tation is performed as
skillfully as the Army and
Navy have performed that
presented by the wound
THE FRONTffi
will gain.—(Juneau Em
pire).
LIBERTY WITH
DISCIPLINE
, As the exiled govern
ments of Europe return,
one by one, to their liber
ated countries, the watch
ing world begins to see
a definite, almost stereo
I
typed pattern of action
emerge. At first the
ministrators are greet
ed with a fervor which ex
presses the joy of a self-1
respecting people once
more free to govern them
selves. Then, as they be
gin to exert the authority
necessary to bring about
order, they come into con
flict with groups whose
whole life for years has
been one of violence nec
essary to drive out what |
authority existed—that of
the (Nazi conqueror.
These groups are now,
naturally enough, condi
tioned to resent any at
tempts at discipline im
posed from above, and re
bel. It is then up to the
government in question,
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tact, to solve the problem,
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chaos of unrest and civil
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The government of
Premier Pierlot in Bel
! gium, latest to be attack
ed in this way, is now
strengthening its stand
for “liberty with disci
pline.” The premier re
ceived an ovation in Par
liament recently when he
stated, urging a grant of *
special power to deal with
the situation:
“These methods are not
new. They have been ta
ken before for a similar
end—the attaining of
power by illegal means. I
know that the day will
come when we shall go—
but not now and not like
that.”—(Fairbanks News
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