The doctor's part, what happens to the wounded in war . PART always this damage to the flesh and almost in-variably an infection of some sort. And justas the fracture itself is complicated, so in thesame ratio is the treatment. It needs skilland ingenuity and patience and a large amountof that sixth sense which God has given towomen—intuition. Dr. Joseph A. Blake presided over thisHospital and in his constant dealing with thisclass of injury had evolved an ingenious andmost efficient system of splints and suspensionwhich made for quick and satisfactory healingand left the patient free of the t
The doctor's part, what happens to the wounded in war . PART always this damage to the flesh and almost in-variably an infection of some sort. And justas the fracture itself is complicated, so in thesame ratio is the treatment. It needs skilland ingenuity and patience and a large amountof that sixth sense which God has given towomen—intuition. Dr. Joseph A. Blake presided over thisHospital and in his constant dealing with thisclass of injury had evolved an ingenious andmost efficient system of splints and suspensionwhich made for quick and satisfactory healingand left the patient free of the torture of someof the older and more cumbrous apparatus. The wards devoted entirely to the fracturecases were a forest of uprights and cross-piecestraversed in all directions by cords runningthrough pulleys and at the ends of the cordsdangled sandbags and weights like some queerfruit in this conventional grove. It was knownfamiliarly as The Machine Shop and refer-ence to the two accompanying pictures bearsout, I think, the aptness of the Fracture Ward in Blakes Hospital, CommonlyKnown There as The Machine Shop.
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