No man ever won the Victoria Gross more Hobly than Capt. Harry Sherwood Ranken RAM, a fellow Shattered whist attending to. wound: Mudent of my. own. His' leg was
don the batleneldhe arrested the Bleeding, bandaged his wounds and then continued. to. dress the "wounds hig men, sacrificing his chances of Sevation io. their needs™he died Shortly after he sally allowed "hima felt to be carried to the rear.
The first impressions of the effects of modern shell fire. obtained in these. battes astonished the medical world and speedily" convinced "the authorities that drastic chonzer_ were necessary in transport und hospital accommodation. The soil of France Introduced new and terrible com plications into war surgery—wounds: arriving in England practically -untreated since the first. battleneld Jdressing were found to be infected with organisms from the soil amongst which lockjaw or tetanus" and gas gangrene were too frequent. Tt became abundantly clear. that a long railway journey' in circumstances which precluded "proper surgical attention was fatal to the recovery. fof the soldiers and that urgent measures were necessary to guard against the peril of tetanus. A change for the better was very soon seen—dressing stations were established on the railways—these were established by the British Red Cross Society which thus as carly September 1914 came prominently into public notice, a prominence which it hing rightly retained ever since.
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