THE WEATHER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3161, 13 August 1917, Page 4

THE WEATHER

FORECAST AND SUMMARY DISTRICT REPORTS. (From Our Own Correspondents.) Featherston, August 11.—Fino and bright, llastcrton, August 11.—Fino sprint: day.

German medical journals say that an Army doctor named Karl Kramer is having great success in the treatment of wounds with hot air and ci'ustic. In tho case ol' a sevcro hand wound it whs found that tho treatment produced freedom from pain, rapid cleaning of the wound, and excellent granulation. After tho wound had been healed tho hand was treated with oaustic solution, packed in the ordinary way, and put for half an hour in a hot-air Ixj.t with a temperature of 110 decrees Centigrade. Thero was a considerablo riso of body temperature, but on the second day, when the treatment was repeated, it was found on changing tho bandages that tho cleausirg of flio wound was remarkably rapid. The treatment was repeated daily until tlio caustic caused no riso of temperature. Tho treatment with caustic 1 was then stopped, and tho hot-air treatment was continued with excellent results. It is stated that in all cases of suppuration neither tetanus nor gas-gangrene woro observed, that tho granulation is always good, that the caustic rapidly stops bleeding—especially in the case of wounds from initio splinters—and that tho high temperature of tho hot-air boxes makes i tho wounds almost painless.