CURIOUS WOUNDS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14740, 20 October 1915, Page 7

CURIOUS WOUNDS.

AN INTERESTING PROBLEM, The men in the trenches, especially in wet weather, get every part of their clothes smeared with mud; indeed, ( it was often diffic.lt t;> say in the winter if any part cf a man’s, clothing was visible throng i tie khaki-coloured mud with which it was caked. t A Inlet or tlie splinter of a shell car.ies this mud, and frequently a particle of clothing, into the wound, and b;th are pretty sure to be impregnated with the dread disease tetanus. To take no chances, every man has his d-se of serum, however lightly lie may be hit, a d totunn-s has in consequence, says Mr H. F. Trevcat Battcr-by, in tho Daily Graphic, alsmost lost that terror for the surgeon which it had n the early battles of Vo war; and with a larger p-ac ice in desire tho serum can now be administered with almost complete security. The fighting at Hoop;' on July 30 produce! what may probably rrrive an inheres'i’g 11 rob letu . Many cf the wounds rocoi ed ♦here vrre dLeovered. when ex■im’nel in the ir/r homital 43 hours M’r to le in'ert"! with fly mangoK S-ch cars -r-' b-i-”id to error where fiies are p’eniful and He firs 1 field dressinn ca-’ir'+ be apl>4 imr><di , t-clv e'ter -he wound is receiver! rr the bandaging i, c-r 1-85. The r- I ’virus feature was that „ v . r . -vvr’.nd so infected showed cleaner and healthier than these in which no maggots were found.