“TRENCH BACK.”
The latest complaint to get a name of its own in this war of surgical surprises is “trench back.” Many cases are under treatment at the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton. They came almost invariably from the trenches (says Captain Sarnies, writing in the “British Medical Journal*’'!. Usually the injury is caused bv sandbags or masses of earth hurled on the men’s backs by bursting shells. Some patients have been so seriously injured that they have had to be carried on stretchers; in milder eases the symptoms are very* like those of lumbago —the patient suffers severe pain and is unable to stand upright. Fortunately, a rapid and effective cure has been found in ionisation with sodium salicylate, which is a method by which the drug is made to penetrate the skin by the agency of an electric current. Under this treatment, carried >r>ut |n the electro-therapeutic department of the Kitchener Hospital, quite helpless men have recovercd after a short cotiise of treatment.'
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5354, 10 February 1916, Page 6
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