Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . of fighting men incapacitatedby infectious disease was enormous; inthis war it will be found, when the endcomes, to have been extraoidinarilysmall. This is principally due to theapplication of modern in which serums play so largea part. The number ot infected wounds, Ihave been told by the British .surgeon-general, it, verjs: large. T suggested,j Enormous. But of such wounds tneJcitre has been so good that the numberI of resulant deaths has been compara-tively small. This war has taught usthat nearly ev
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . of fighting men incapacitatedby infectious disease was enormous; inthis war it will be found, when the endcomes, to have been extraoidinarilysmall. This is principally due to theapplication of modern in which serums play so largea part. The number ot infected wounds, Ihave been told by the British .surgeon-general, it, verjs: large. T suggested,j Enormous. But of such wounds tneJcitre has been so good that the numberI of resulant deaths has been compara-tively small. This war has taught usthat nearly every wound inflicted by aprojectile from firearms will be infect-ed, and consequently nearly every in .Jury in this war must b^ tr-eated as adirty wound. This means that surgeonsof ability must be stationed as closeas possible to the places where likely to be inflicted. This liasmade necessary laboratoiy service nearthe firing line as well as in the hospi-tals in the interior. .Such facilitiesnever have been known before in war-fare or so seriously
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