WAR-TIME MOSQUITOES

Evening Star, Issue 23727, 7 November 1940, Page 6

WAR-TIME MOSQUITOES

Wounded men who have undergone the now .Spanish treatment for gunshot wounds are now often to bo seen about the streets Originated during the civi] war by Dr Truota, the treatment consists of putting the wounded limb into plaster of pnris and leaving it more or less to heal itself, instead of dressing it daily. The appearance or men with these bulky plastered limbs puzzles many laymen. The following dialogue took place recently in a suburban railway station between an, old lady and a soldier whose arm was done up in plaster;— Puzzled Old Lady (approaching and tapping the arm) ; “ Have you been bitten?” Wounded Soldier (taken aback): “ Bitten ?” Puzzled Old Lady: ‘‘The mosquitoes are biting so hard this summer.” Wounded Soldier: “And the shrapnel even harder.” Collapse, as Punch used to say, of stouL party.