DURING the last two years of the Great War your president and I had to make our way to work every day through wards crowded with wounded men, the great majority of them suffering from a streptococcus infection of their wounds. And in 1918 in those same wards we saw dozens of men die from the deadly streptococcus pneumonia that so frequently followed influenza dutring the epidemic. The end of th...

To cite: Darçın AE, Noyan OC, Nurmedov S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016215337 DESCRIPTION A 53-year-old man, a health professional from a Middle Eastern country, was admitted with parenteral overuse of pentazocine. He had first used pentazocine in the First Persian Gulf War for migraine. He began to abuse pentazocine, which he scaled ...

There is no doubt that epilepsy presents a valuable means of studying cerebral function. Apart from the problem of what factors cause the abnormal neuronal discharge which constitutes the fit, the pattern of attack can give information about the function of the area concerned when the site of injury is known. For this purpose the study of cases of post-traumatic epilepsy following the small pen...

The article considers the representation of war in Leo Tolstoy's artistic and journalistic work. The concept of "War" is a key notion in the writer's works. The paper describes the lexicon embodying the topic. To express the essence of the concept, Leo Tolstoy uses such words as sumasshestviye (madness), zlo (evil), and nasiliye (violence). The article analyzes the evolution of attitu...

This book gives a complete and comprehensive study of the combat-incurred injuries in the Mediterranean Theater (previously North African Theater) from November 8, 1942 to May 2, 1945. The studies which were carried out over this period produced changes in the concepts and methods of treatment -of severe, compound, soft tissue and skeletal injuries. They are briefly as follows: In the early per...

BACKGROUND The amount and identity of metals incorporated into "weapons without fragments" remain undisclosed to health personnel. This poses a long-term risk of assumption and contributes to additional hazards for victims because of increased difficulties with clinical management. We assessed if there was evidence that metals are embedded in "wounds without fragments" of victims of the Israeli...

Socio-technical theory is half a century old. It was found by group of researchers, therapists, and consultants at the London Tavistock Clinic to assist soldiers for regaining their mental stability and health after the war. The group at Tavistock Clinic believed that treatment ideas used for healings the soldiers could be applied for enriching jobs. In line with this thinking, the Tavistock in...

BACKGROUND There have been no large cohort reports detailing the wounding patterns and mechanisms in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS The Joint Theater Trauma Registry was queried for all US service members receiving treatment for wounds (International Classification of Diseases-9th Rev. codes 800-960) sustained in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom f...