. Surgery, its principles and practice . It is well to make provisionagainst the emergency need for an abundant supply of fresh air, by anelectric fan or a portable canvas conduit leading from a nearby ventil-ating louver. This perhaps expresses the only unusual provision forsuch an accident as overdosing. It would seem that spinal anesthesia, where applicable, or localanesthesia should have a particular field of usefulness in naval surgery,more especially during or after engagements. It is unnecessary to enu- ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 1025 merate their many theoretic advantages in c
. Surgery, its principles and practice . It is well to make provisionagainst the emergency need for an abundant supply of fresh air, by anelectric fan or a portable canvas conduit leading from a nearby ventil-ating louver. This perhaps expresses the only unusual provision forsuch an accident as overdosing. It would seem that spinal anesthesia, where applicable, or localanesthesia should have a particular field of usefulness in naval surgery,more especially during or after engagements. It is unnecessary to enu- ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 1025 merate their many theoretic advantages in comparison with generalanesthetics. It will be enough to present the few which apply to thecircumstances of naval practice under consideration. These appeartobe:^^ First, the immense saving of time and attention in administration;second, the saving in operating personnel (dispensing with the necessityof an anesthetizer); third, the saving in number of attendants for in-dividual patients (after operation the patient does not require such. Fig. 511.—Bath-room, U. S. S. Connecticut. attention as after general anesthesia); fourth, saving in number of bearers(the patient being frequently able to assist himself); fifth, their employ-ment would relieve suffering and at the same time eliminate the inherentdangers of general anesthetics and go far toward preventing nervous shock. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT AND PREPARATION FOR BATTLE. The progress noted in construction and ordnance must be followed byequal development in the medical department. In the navies of todayVOL. IV—65 1026 NAVAL SURGERY. everybody attends with keenness and avidity to the advances in technicalong their special lines. The doctors play their part by their attentionto the progress in medical science as applied to naval warfare, and byadjusting their organization to conform to the changes in construction,armament, and service conditions generally, as expressed in the probableeffect which modern maneuve
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