"The herculean problem of dealing wih the niverat infection of wounds engaged the attention of the Scientite brains In Prance, 'Britain and" America and after: many tale Sind disappointments there. emerged three methods each oquelly Valuable "its" own" sphere and equally Dratiant "in its results and the Painstaking' research and ingenuity Which had. produced. them-namels the Carrel "Dakin. the Hypertonic Saline andthe. Flavine' methods Prominent' amongst the many work: ers whose names are to be associated with this "brilliant. work are Dr. Alexis Carrel, Dr. "Dakine BE Lorrain Smith, sie Atmroth "Wright and Dr. C. H, Browning. from "the earliest days of the wor Many well-known specialists
actively at work with the Foreer= amongst these the names of Sit George Makins, Sir John" Ros Bradford, "Sir Bertrand Dawsot (now Lord Dawson of Penn), Sit Victor Horsley, Sir Anthony Bowlby and Sir William Herringham wilt fever be remembered by the many medical officers who served under them. From these "distinguished surgeons and physicians and from many more equally famous working {In hospitals at home, great advances were evolved in improving and systematizing the treatment of all branches of wounds and diseases to which the soldier became subject—fractures, chest wounds, brain wounds, "abdominal wounds, burns, dysentery, typhoid, malaria," all re= ceived attention and methods of treatment were described far superior to any previously known,
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