Burn injuries remain a significant cause of morbidity and mortality during modern military conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Considering that commercially available dressings are not designed to meet the challenges of treating combat burn wounds, DRDC Toronto has designed a novel, absorbent and medicated bi-layer wound dressing to address key requirements for treating external war wounds. ...

Chronic osteomyelitis is now probably a curable disease if the surgical attack made upon it is sufficiently radical and is associated with plastic reconstructive methods and antibiotic therapy. This is a report of fifty-eight cases (Table I). Infection usually originated as an open wound caused by missiles of war, as a compound fracture, or as the blood-borne osteomyelitis of youth. If antibiot...

Injuries of the urinary tract may be received under conditions which almost approximate those of peace time and also under circumstances inseparable from war. Penetrating wounds are the prerogative of passion; once upon a time accident alone engendered those injuries to the urinary system where no breach of belly wall exists. Tout fa change; modern aerial or artillery bombardments may rupture t...

On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unification, the discovery of some letters by Giuseppe Garibaldi - referring to a period of thermal treatments at the Baths in Civitavecchia (Rome) - gave us the opportunity for writing a commentary about a not well known experience in the Two World Hero's life: the numerous treatments carried out at many Italian spa centres for treating a...

During the Great War, the French surgeon Alexis Carrel, in collaboration with the English chemist Henry Dakin, devised an antiseptic treatment for infected wounds. This paper focuses on Carrel's attempt to standardise knowledge of infected wounds and their treatment, and looks closely at the vision of surgical skill he espoused and its difference from those associated with the doctrines of scie...

Maggot debridement therapy is the introduction of live and disinfected fly larvae in a wound order to aid cleaning healing. This technique was discovered as beneficial effect colonization human tissue by (myiasis). discovery made during World War I when it observed that injured soldiers whose wounds were infested with maggots healed faster than their counterparts free from maggots. In this ther...

ordinary practitioner. Take for example the question of diphtheritic infection persisting after all symptoms have disappeared. It is the practice of some practitioners to insist upon isolation till all bacteria have disappeared from the throat. This is quite unnecessary, as the writer points out recent views tending to disregard the continued presence of the bacillus in convalescents or contact...

Dann, Gltjcksmann and Tansley (1942) tried cod-liver oil and its various fractions in the treatment of experimental wound in rats. They found that cod-liver oil acts as a mild irritant, which perhaps benefits healing by stimulating the formation of granulation tissue. Sulphonamides have been used very widely both locally and internally for the treatment of infected wounds. The clinical progress...

BACKGROUND War wounds produce a significant burden on medical facilities in wartime. Workload from the recent conflict was documented in order to guide future medical needs. METHODS All data on war injuries were collected prospectively. This information was supplemented with a review of all patients admitted during the study period. RESULTS During the first 2 weeks of the conflict, the sole...

II. OVERVIEW The risk of intracranial infection among patients with PBI is high because of the presence of contaminated foreign objects, skin, hair, and bone fragments driven into the brain along the missile track. The presence of air sinus wounds or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulae may further increase the risk of infection. Since sulfa drugs were introduced just prior to World War II, all p...