HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-03-12, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1042 THE SEAFORTEI NEWS
Dr. Blow M 'ly
Takes A Hand
This is a story of some heroes in
the first 'World War who didtt'tahave
any monuments built in their honor,
but they started something of vital
concern to the armies of World War
2, and to the health in war or peaoe
of all.
The "heroes" were a ' handful of
blow -fly maggots.
Somewhere in France in 1917, two
wounded American soldiers were ov-
erlooked when the injured were pick-
ed up. For seven days they lay h the
brush without food or water, expos-
ed to the weather and clouds of in-
sects buzzing about the dank, foetid
undergrowth.
Finally—the crisp )medical record.
doesn't say how—they were discov-
ered and brought into a field hospi-
tal, The army surgeon, Dr, W. S.
Baer, upon learning the circum-
stances, was amazed to find them,
not only alive, but also with no fever
and no sign of blood poisoning.
His wonder grew as he discovered
the extent of their wounds: com-
pound fractures of the thigh bqne
and large 'flesh wounds of the abdo-
men.
The clothing was cut away and the
wounds laid open. Dr. Baer stepped
back in revulsion. Hundreds of blow-
fly maggots—squirmy little wrigglers
—infested the entire wounded parts.
"Quick—warns salt solution," he
ordered, "Wash them out. Easy now.
What's this? Remarkable—Re-mark-
able!"
Instead of the putrefaction to be
expected of an unattended wound,
there was revealed the most surpris-
ing picture of clean, new tissue that
any surgeon could have asked of e Each had been operated on 'three
healing incision. or four times over a period of five
"Practically no bare bone to be years, following the best technique
seen," said Dr, Baer, ecstatically, in known to get at the diseased parts of
a medical report later, "and the in- the infection, but invariably it had
ternal structure of the wounded bone set in again. Dr, Baer determined to
as well as the surrounding parts, was try on these pitiful cases the maggots
entirely filled with healthy pink tis- assistance, as spectacularly demon-
sue." strated on the battlefield of France.
The two patients got well in re- In September, 1'928, he operated
cord time, One ease might have been again on each of the folzr children to
put down among those freaks of iron remove all accessible dead tissue;
constitution which defy explanation, then, with no antiseptics of any kind
but two, under identical conditions! he injected into the wounds some live
Dr. Baer could not help wondering larvae of blow -flies found in the net-
if the presence of the maggots was g'liborhood. Anxiously he watched
responsible. Could it be, he 'asked the children day after 'day as the
himself, that they acted as leaven- wounds began to close up. At the
gers, cleansing the wounds of the end of six week, the wounds had
dead and dying tissues and allowing completely healed, even 'becoming
new flesh and bone to grow unim., covered with skin. One by one the
peded? .. . children were discharged from the
Back in Baltimore after the war hospital, cured.
he dug into musty tomes of medical Later a doctor discovered what it
history and found that the same ob- was about the maggots that paused
servation had been' made by Baron the healing effect; not just eating up
D. J. Larrye, famous surgeon of Na dead tissues, as Dr. Baer had believ-
poleon's armies, ed, but a chemical fluid which the
Why, Dr. Baer wondered, had such maggots secreted into wounds:
Scientists call the secretion carba-
mide. It occurs in numerous veget-
ables, notably spinach. Advantages
of carbamide treatment over maggot
therapy are obvious. A certain am-
ount of tolerance, not to say faith, is
demanded of a patient submitting to
the presence of live inserts in his
body for days and even weeks)
an important observation never been
followed up? It had been overshad-
owed perhaps by discoveries of Pas-
teur and Lister, and the revolution
in surgery brought about by anti-
septics. Yet in every hospital there
still were wounds and 'diseased states
of flesh and bone which, even under
as nearly aseptic conditions as pos-
sible, refused to heal.
For example, there were four
youngste,s at the Children's Hospital
in Baltimore with chronic octeomye-
litis, that dread bone disease which
literally eats out the patient's mar-
rows. Pathetic cases, these four, for
whom all hope of a normal, healthy,
body had been given up.
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Mrs. George Hallam viewed rather
a startling scene recently when she
happened to gas out of the window
of the barn. She witnessed their dog
and a deer playing together in a
nearby field. Shortly after she heard
the dog yelping and perceived the
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The mild weather has put the
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QUEEN ELIZABETH'S
NEEDLE WOMAN
Helps to, Make Thousands of Flags
for Britain's Navy
Among the women called in to
make flags for Britain's expanding
Royal Navy la one Who until recently
worked for a Cotirt dressmaker ap-
pointed to Queen Elizabeth, Instead
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wiles this needlewoman works,, and
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Although in peace time much of
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ENGLAND BEANS
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This is the month when the seeds
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They are a gift from Mrs. Roose-
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SWEEPING SKIES OVER CONVOY
Ready for the enemy from the skies, a steel -helmeted seaman -gunner
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able seeds of course and chosen to
come up in rotation, from early
spying lettuce to late winter sprouts.
The Women's Institutes of England
are ah•eady handling three tons of
them (with more to follow). Last year
they distributed no less than 17 tons
of seeds from the United States. In
addition to that splendid bit of gen-
erosity, U.S.A. sent 300 bags of super-
phosphate, each holding 100 lbs, of
the fertiliser, and 500 canning and
sealing machines for storing the fruit
gathered by the instituts. The wo-
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and vegetables lest year.
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the herbalists. Digitalin for heart dis-
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and the nettles are effective in cases
of high blood pressure.
The women are organising a simil-
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are hoping too to organise meals for
school children in the remoter parts
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