WAR WOUNDS OF THE CRANIUM AND BRAIN

Millitary Psychotherapy and Psychological Wounds of War

SUMMARY After a short reference to Iran-Iraq war as a motivating factor for the present study, the issues of battle stress and psychological wounds of war ar discuused. Reactions of the world armies 10 psychological breakdown of soldiers, military psychotherapy, therapy in combat zone and its developmental process through Civil war, Crimean war, first and Second world wars, Korean and Vietnam ...

THE EFFECT OF PHENYTOIN ON HEALING OF WAR AND NON-WAR INTRACTABLE WOUNDS

Phenytoin (PHT), a drug in clinical use for over fifty years as an anticonvulsant, has heen reported to promote the healing of skin and soft tissue wounds, ulcers and second degree burns. We treated 19 patients with war-related missile wounds and 6 with chronic, non-healing (previously treated at least for.') months with antibiotics and betadine or acetic acid dressing) civilian ulcers wit...

War Wounds and Injuries

The Treatment of War Wounds

randum on some of the more important and most recent improvements in the treatment of war wounds," and was compiled at the request of the Medical Committee of the National Eesearch Council. Though thus written at secondhand, it contains the views of many eminent surgeons who have firsthand experience of their subjects. It is indeed a glossary of many of the recent methods of surgery that have b...

The Treatment of War Wounds

in some detail, with the aid of several figures, followed by chapters on stereoscopic localisation, tetanus, gas gangrene and wounds of the head, chest, joints and abdomen. In no case do the chapters pretend to completeness; they are merely notes on recent improvements in methods. The " Ambrine " treatment of burns is dealt with, and the newest antiseptics?Dichloramin-T, Acriflavine, and Brilli...