Zurich Herald, 1919-08-08, Page 3WOUNDED RE MADE
BY LAY DOCTORS
REI) CROSS WORKER TELLS OF
FICHIEVEMENTS IN SURGERY.
Soldiers Brought to Hospital With
Countenances • Merely Blurs Sent
Away With Normal Visages.
. "It is surprising how many things
can be done to a man by a shell, and
have him still, living," says a'' Red
Cross Worker, Miss Eve Iiammond.
"And the things that can be done to
make it worth while for him to go on
living are even more surprising; they
were surprising to us, to whom they
were an every day hatter, and to the
un.ittated they were a revelation."
"Dental surgery is one profeseion
that has gone ahead from'the impetus
of the war in leaps anti bounds. The
marvels that the doctors of dentistry
performed were not entirely unknown
before the war, but they were in the
theoretical stage. There was no chance
to put these theories into practice, ex-
cept in widely isolated cases. The war
proved that those theories were sound
and practicable; it afforded them a
means of development. There is noth-
ing impossible in dental surgery now.
"I. have seen mien come into that
hospital of ours with a bloody blur
where their faces had been. red
through a tube and kept alive, I have
seen their remaining bits of skin
stretched over the raw places, which
fill with new flesh under careful'tr•eat-
uient, and finally they have gone out
into the world with a new face.
Marvellous Reconstructive Surgery.
"There was one man, I remember,
who cause in to us with his entire face
gone --nothing left but one eye. We
fed him through a tube, built hint a
metal jaw fitted with teeth, and made
him look like a human being again, ex-
cept that he had no nose—only two
nostrils, We found him a false nose
with a pair of spectacles attached, hid-
ing the scarred flesh around his miss-
ing eye, and making him look so much
like other men that one would not
have glanced at hint a second time to
note his deformity.
"Another man cane to us with the
greater part of his face intact, but
with no nose. It had been shot off
completely, leaving his flesh flat from
chin to forehead. We uuade him a
nose to fit slim. From the place where
his nose had jqined to his. forehead
there hung a little wisp of skin. This
was pulled down, stretched every day,
and kept dry and healthy by an anti-
septic powder. Finally it grew to the
correct length for a nose. Then we
opened his wrist and grafted a piece
of bone to the place where his nose
should have been, binding aria and
face together until the olieration was
completed. Then we adjusted the skin,
which filled out with healthy flesh, and
there was a new nose!"
Easy to Give Man New Face,
A man whose face had been hang-
ing down from below his eyes, Miss
Ilammond says, was a simple case.
His face was sewn back in place.
"I met him on the street in Paris,"
she says, "just two days before I
sailed, and his face looked just as
usual, except for a light scar which
ran along under his eyes and across
his nose. In time it will almost dis-
appear. A man who had been the vic-
tim of a freak shell which had ripped
out every one of his teeth, leaving him
otherwise unharmed, was supplied
with new guns and a complete set of
upper and lower false teeth. I have
even seen a man with his brain bulg-
ing down over his eye from a jagged
cut in his skull. The brain has been
carefully pressed back in place, and
the head fitted with a metal plate.
This operation leaves the patient per-
fectly normal so far as his mental con-
dition is concerned. He is, however,
unable to go about much in the hot
sun, as strong heat affects hint, and
he cannot drink because it irritates
the brain."
Sometimes, Miss Hammond said, a
patient would be brought into the hos-
pital with his leg smashed to pieces.
Instead of making a hurried amputa-
tion, every effort was)nade to save the
injured limb. It was put into a frame,
and in a short time the smashed bones
would take a position, knit, and begin
to grow together, while the splintered
bits would gradually work their way
out of the leg th.r'ough the 'flesh,
A Suggestion FerLarge Families.
The ninth baby had just arrived in
the grocer's home. Asked tite bachelor
from next door, somewhat cynically:
"What will its Rattle be, or have you
e
n
run out
"Run eat of names! Nothing!" re-
torted the father. "We'll just call her
Nina,"
"1 am old and leave had many trou-
bles, but most of them never happen-
ed."
Coffee was introduced into England
in 10474 and in 1552 was £5 16s. a
STOMACH TROUBLE
Cozies When the Blood is Weak
and Watery.
'Thin blooded people generally have
stomach trouble. But they seldoin re-
cognize the fact that thin blood is the
cause of. their 'indigestion, but it is.
Thin .blood is one of the most com-
mon causes of stomach trouble; it
affects the digestion very quickly. The
glands that furnish the digestive fluids
are diminished in their activity, the
stomach muscles are weakened and
there is' a. loss of nerve force. Ili this
state of health nothing will more
quickly restore the appetite, digestion
and normal nutrition than good, rich,
red blood.
Dr, Williams' Pink Pills act direct-
ly on the blood, leaking it rich and
red, and this enriched blood strength-
ens weak nerves, stimulates tired
muscles, and awakens to normal ac-
tivity the glands that supply the di-
gestive fluids. The first sign of re-
turning health is an improved appetite,
and soon the effect of these blood -mak-
ing pills is evident throughout the
whole system. You find that what you
eat does not distress you, and that you
are strong and vigorous instead of ir-
ritable and listless. You are on the
road to sound, good health and care
in your diet is all you need. If your
appetite is fickle, if you have any of
the distressing pains and symptoms
of indigestion you should begin to cure
yourself at once by taking Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills.
These pills are sold by all dealers in
medicine or you can get them by mail
..at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2,50
from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
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SPANIARDS AS NAGIGATORS,
In Early Days They Explored Many
Lands But Failed to Determine
Locations.
TBe Spaniards of early days were
most adventurous explorers, but, for
ell their discoveries of distant lands,
very poor navigators.
After coming upon the Solomon Is-
lands (in the western Pacific), they
could not find them again, and they
were lost for 150 years.
The water supply of their ships was
kept in big earthen jars. As it was
impossible to provide in this way
enough to drink for a long voyage,
they took to sea many large mats,
which when it rained were spread to
catch the drops. From the mats the
water was ,drained. off into jars.
Probably it was no fault of Colum-
bus, but his first voyage to America,
which occupied two months' time, was
mainly a drift. When he landed in
Cuba he thought he had reached the
mainland. of Asia, and sent an expedi-
tion inland to treat with the Great
Khan of Tartary. Later his flagship,
the Santa Maria, ran aground off the
coast of Haiti, the natives of which is-
land welcomed him most hospitably.
He noticed three or four of them
whose naked bodies showed scars,
which they attributed to bites inflicted
by man-eating savages of another is-
land called Caniba. Whence the origin
of the worst cannibal—the island in-
habited by these anthropophagi being
Porto Rico.
Less than 150 years ago Spain still
claimed ownership of the whole Paci-
fic Ocean, declaring it a Spanish lake
on the strength of Baboa's discovery
in 1513. Acting upon this idea the
Spanish Government ordered the cora-
=andante of San Francisco to seize
the Columbia, the first vessel that car-
ried the United States flag around
Cape Horn.
Flying Trips to Europe.
A flier predicts that we shall within
a few years fly across the Atlantic in
the forenoon and return in the after-
noon. We shall return in the after-
noon, no boubt, because after paying
fare for flying so high we shall have
nothing left upon which to "do" lands
beyond the Atlantic.
Save by the W.S.S. plan.
• FRANCE R
Amidst the ruins of ravaged Fran.
pear and do their part in the recons
graph shows a small farm on what, ov
field.
ECOVERI NG
ee, sunull farms are commencing to ap-
truction,of the Republic. The photo-
er a Year ago, was part of a battle -
PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS.
Different Tests Employed by Physician
to Obtain Information,
When a physician sets about to de-
termine the nature of the disease from
which his patient suffers, he has re-
course to many different procedures.
He questions the patient as to his
symptoms; he uses the thermometer
to gauge the height of fever; he feels
the pulse, makes a chemical and mic-
roscopical examination of the secre-
tions, examines the blood, takes an
X''ray picture if necessary, and—es-
pecially when he suspects disease of
the organs within the chest or the ab-
domen—resorts to what -Ile calls a
physical examination. The informa-
tion that he obtains by the means last
mentioned is called the physical diag-
nosis.
There are four measures that physi-
cians use to arrive at a physical diag-'
nosis—inspection, palpation, percus-
sion and auscultation.
Inspection is more than its name im-
plies, for it means not only to look at
the patient or any part of him, but al-
so to look critically with an expert eye
that sees much that is hidden from the
casual observer. The physician looks
not only at the part that he suspects
is diseased but also at the face, in
which he searches many valuable in-
dications. A mere glance, for example,
may lead him to suspect pneumonia,
or peritonitis, a paralytic stroke, or an
internal hemorrhage.
Palpation often gives information of
the greatest value. The physician„ by
using his hands, gains knowledge of
the patient's temperature in general,
or by observing a difference in tem-
perature between two parts obtains
clues that may lead to a clear diagnos-
is in a difficult case. By laying his
hand on the patient's chest he is able
to locate the point at which the heart
strikes the chest wall, and so to deter-
mine when the organ is displaced
either through increase in size or
through being pressed to one c -r the
other side by a tumor or some abnor-
mal condition within the chest; he
may also feel the movements of the
abdominal organs or the vibrations in
the chest caused by adhesions of the
lung to the chest wall, and so on.
Percussion consists in tapping the
wall of the chest or the abdomen to
determine by the sound the condition
of density or rarefaction of the organ
within. The principle is the same
that the plumber uses when he taps
a pipe to learn whether it contains
water or is empty.
Finally, auscultation is listening to
the sounds caused by the closure of
the valves of the heart, the breath
Sounds in the lungs, the movements of
air and fluid in the intestines, and so
on. That is, perhaps, the most valu-
able means of diagnosis, and the one
that calls for the greatest experience
and judgment en the part of the phy-
sician.
British scientists have detected
traces of light more than 300 feet
under water.
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Ther a a Rea,son
BABY'S GREAT DANGER
BURIN HOT 1VlEATIIEIt
More little ones die during the hot
weather than at any other time of the
year. Diarrhoea, dysentry, cholera in-
fantuni and stomach troubles come
without warning, and when a medicine
is not at hand to give promptly the
short delay too frequently means that
the child has passed beyond aid.
Baby's Own Tablets should always be
kept in the house where there are
young children. An occasional dose
of .the Tablets will prevent stomach
and bowel troubles, or if the trouble
comes suddenly the prompt use of the
Tablets will relieve the baby. The
Tablets are sold by medicine dealers
or by mail at 25c. a box frons' The Dr,
Williams' Medicine Cb., Brockville,
'Ont.
No Place Like Home.
A, colored soldier who was on his
way to France and who had never
seen a body of water larger than a
creek was so impressed by the size of
the ocean that he refused to look at it
after the fourth day out. Suddenly a
friend called him.
"What do you want?" he asked dully
from his berth.
"Dar's a sailin' ship goin' by. Come
and see a sailin' ship."
"Look -a -here, nigger," came the
sharp retort, "I'm done sick of youah
bow fassad whales. I'll •done sail into
you if`yoa don't remember what I told
you befoah. Call me when you done
see a tree, and foah nothin' else.
Understand?"
I bought a horse with a supposedly
incurable ringbone for $30.00. Cured
him with $1.00 worth of MINARD'S
LINIMENT and sold him for $35,00.
Profit on Liniment, $54.
MOISE DEROSCE.
Hotel Keeper, St. Phillippe, Que.
The Simple Life.
Punctuation marks are like sign-
posts on a country road; you pause for
a moment when you conte to them and
then go on your way a little wiser for
the stop. Can you put the proper sign-
posts in the following four lines?
He liked to do the things he liked
To do the things he liked
To do he liked to do to to '
The things he liked to do
>Minard'er Liniment Ceres Colds, Eta
Truth Will Out,
Father (severely) : "Tommy, did
you ask mother if you could have that
apple ?
Toney (six years old) : "Ye -e -es,
fat!"
Fherather: "Be careful now. 1 shall
ask mother, and if she says you didn't
ask her, I shall punish you for telling
au untruth. Now,.did you ask her?"
Tommy: "Yes, father, I did truly,"
A pause then. "And she said I could
not have it."
No Alligators.
A naval officer, wishing to bathe in
a Ceylon river, asked a native to show
him a place where there were no alli-
gators. The native took him to a pool
close to the estuary,
The officer enjoyed the clip. While
drying himself he asked his guide why
there were never any alligators in that
pool.
"Because,
plied "they
sur, the CingaIese re-
, plenty fraise of $Balli.
"Let every dawn of moaning be to
you as the beginning of life, and every
setting sun be to you as its close;
then let every one of these short lives
leave its sure record of some kindly
thing done for others, some goodly
strength of knowledge gained for
yourself." ---Ruskin,
Couldn't Catch Bobby.
Papa: "Bobby, if you had a little
more spunk you would stand better in
your class. Now, do you know what
spunk is?"
Bobby: "Yes, sir: It's the past for
spank."
Nothwithstanding.
Teacher—"Johnnie, give me a sen-
tence to illustrate the word 'notwitil-
standing.
Johnnie promptly)—"The boy wore
out the seat qrf his pants , not with
standing,"
We Understand.
"I thought you said you knew some-
thing about cooking," said a sergeant
to a recruit.
"I did say so," the recruit replied.
"Well, how do you make hash?"
"You don't make it; it just accumu-
lates."
A Thoughtful Act.
The sportsman went out for a day's
rough shooting. Not being a particu-
Iarly good shot, the bag was nil, and,
as he slid not like to return empty-
handed, he bought a hare in the town
on the way home. He presented it to
his wife, who, after expressing her
thanks, thoughtfully remarked: "It
was a good thing you shot that hare
when you did, John; it wouldn't have
kept another day."
It Was His Old Complaint.
Two weary tramps met after a
lengthy separation and sat down to
compare experiences.
"Have yer been to the front?" asked
one. "Ain't seen yer about lately."
"I've had influenzy."
"Influenzy- What's that?"
Well, I don't know how I can exact-
ly explain it, but it takes all the fight
out of yer. Yer feels sort of tired like.
Don't seem to want to do anything
only lie down and sleep."
"Why, I've had that disease for the
last twenty years!" exclaimed the
first speaker; "but this is the first
time I've ever heard its name."
Obeying Mother.
A man had just arrived at a summer
resort. In the afternoon he was sit-
ting on the verandah, when a hand-
some young woman and her six-year-
old
ix year-
old son came out. The little fellow at
once made friends with the latest ar-
rival.
"What's your name?" he asked.
Then, when this information had been
given, he added, "Are you married?"
"I am not married," responded the
man, with a smile.
At this the child paused a moment,.
and, turning to his mother, said:
"What else was it, mamma, you
wanted me to ask him?"
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J. LISTEN TO THIS!
• SAYS CORNS LIFT
RIGHT OUT NOW
m
o • o o • •��
You reckless men and women who
are pestered with corns and who have
at least once a week invited an awful
death from lockjaw or blood. poison are
now told by a Cincinnati authority to
use a drug called freezone, which the
moment a few drops are applied to
any corn, the soreness is relieved and
soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts
out with the fingers.
It is a sticky ether compound which
dries the moment it is applied and
simply shrivels the corn without in-
flaming or even irritating the surround-
ing tissue or skin. It is claimed that
a quarter of an ounce of freezone will
cost very little at any of the drug
stores, but is sufficient to rid one's feet
of every hard or soft corn or callus,
Yea are further warned that cutting
at a corn is a suicidal habit.
LEMONS MAKE SKiN
WHiTE, SOFT, CLEAR
Make this beauty lotion for a few
cents and see for yourself.
What girl or woman hasn't heard
of lesion juice to remove coinpiexion
blemishes; to whiten the skin and to
bring out the roses, the freshness and
the hidden beauty? But lemon juice
alone is acid, therefore irritating,
and should be mixed with orchard
white this way: Strain through a fine
eloth the juice of two fresh lemons
into a bottle containing about three
ounces of orchard white, then shake
well and you have a whole quarter
pint of skin and complexion lotion
at about
the e costone usually pays for
a small jar of ordinary cold cream,
Be sure to strain the lemon juice so
no pulp gets into the bottle, then this 1
lotion will remain pure and fresh for
months. When applied daily to the
face, neck, arms and hands it should
help to bleach, clear, smoothen and
beautify the skin.
Any druggist will supply three
ounces of orchard white at very little
Cost and the grocer has the lemons.
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have bred them successfully for twelve
years before offering any for sale, They
mature quickly, grow very large and the
females are the most prolific breeders on
earth. Write for information. Mention
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Suggestive.
A well-known
ing an operation
fire started in
road, illuminating
theatre. Having
turned to the
"I say, nurse,
coming to. I
the operation
Iil;inard's Liniment
"The House
wayside.' The
are the commonest,
be gained not
by large souls."—Bishop
MONEY
Dominion Express
on sale in
throughout Canada.
"Pickles and
These women
don't they?"
waiter. "What's
hot mince pie
ice cream on
surgeon
on a patient
a warehouse
the whole
finished,
nurse and
I notice
don't want
hasnt been
was perform-
when a
across the
operating
the surgeon
dryly said:
the patient is
him to think
a success, a
Distemper,
stands by the
things
these are to
fortunes, but
Westcott.
Orders are
offices
russe, hey?
queer orders,
assentea the
"Piece of
portions of
Cures
Beautiful
most precious
and
by large
ORDERS.
llloney
five thousand
charlotte
give some
"Yes, sir,"
yours?"
with two
it."
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GENuINE
ONLY TABLETS
"BAYER CROSS"
If You Don't See
the Tablets,
Are Not
There is only
with the "Bayer
lets are only acid
Look for the
it is real Aspirin,
no substitute.
Aspirin is not
in Canada by Canadians,
by a Canadian
Genuine "Bayer
have been proved
Pain, Headache,
Rheumatism, Lumbago,
Handy tin boxes
larger "Bayer"
at any drug store.
Aspirin is the
ed. in Canada,
of Monoaceticacidester
acid.
CAN
TELL
Asp/R1N
WITH
ARE ASPIRIN.
"Bayer Cross" on
Them—They
At All.
that marked
other tab-
Cross"l Then
which there is
but is made
and is owned
of Aspirin"
by millions for
Colds,
Neuritis.
12 tablets,—alse
be had
nark, register
Manufacture
of Salicylic,
MARKED
the
Refuse
Aspirin
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one Aspirin,
Cross"—all
imitations.
"Bayer
for
German
Company.
Tablets
safe
Neuralgia,
of
packages,—can
trade
of Bayer
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partings
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