Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1942 — Page 6

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os NAVY APPEALS FOR BINOCULARS

Indiana 27th Among States Contributing Glasses to The Fleet.

The navy needs binoculars. That pair of yours lying unused in a drawer may save a ship. Binoculars are the eyes of the fleet and they are needed desperately. Since the navy first issued its appeal four and one half months ago only 1654 sets have been contributed. During the last war 50,000 were received by the armed forces. Of the 1654 sets, Indiana has contributed eight, making this state 27th among states contributing. Only two types are adequate. They are the Carl Zeiss and the Bausch & Lomb size 6x30 or 7x50. The binoculars should .be sent to

FIND NEW METHOD | "FOR CURING BURNS i

_ Navy's Discovery Brings Rapid Relief to Pained Men ‘And Leaves Them Without Scars; Doctor

Made Experiment at Muncie.

By GEORGE WELLER Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA; July 2.—Burns are . the characteristic disablement of World War 2. It is to render burns more easily cured that the United States navy has, in the Southwest Pacific, introduced a new method of treatment which makes burns less painful and far less disfiguring than ever before in hospital warfare. The most formidable enemy which the Asiatic fleets encountered was Japanese bombing planes. Except for the battle of Java almost all engagements were men and 34% Peper of Milne ue itn warships against either|surface out of shape. Furthermore, bombers or torpedo-tossing the skin has a tendency to contract

Preparing to give the eagle wings . . . Eugene Fales, William Colwell; Gerald Schlaeger, Charles Schwartz, Donald Lodge, Beecher Waters, Thomas Marcicilll, Gerald Musselman, Harry A. Moore and James Robinson.

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and eventually tendons can be seen. destroyers. Today’s treatment begins with a long soak in a saline bath. The water contains from one to two per cent of ordinary salt. The patient lies there watching the ceiling as long as two or three hours at a time sometimes bathing three or four times daily. He becomes “almost amphibious.” Relief Is Immediate Relief begins immediately. This fact was accidently revealed by the discovery that men who had received third degree burns in flash explosions aboard wrecked warships were strangely better off if not rescued from the water than if rescued. Lifeboat cases peculiarly were in a worse condition when introduced into the hospital than cases of those who had remained immersed, held up only by lifebelts, for several hours. The burned seaman thus begins with the hair of the dog that bit him by extended periods of indoor floating. Between the floating periods the wounds are swathed in lace curtains—yes, lace curtains. Formerly

Relatively few men have been in- - Jured by flying fragments. But the percentage of burns is higher than during World War 1. Were this new method of treatment not in existence sailors exposed to ‘bomb flashes’ might still today bear scars, twists and wrinkles of the skin. Thanks, however, to the application of the new method, sailors who have

undergone terri-

ble bombings by Japanese squadrons—sometimes unprotected even Mr. Weller by the long gloves and woolen underwear customarily worn into action—have . been treated until their burns have been definitely erased.

Adapted From British

The method was first tried by the Americans in the Far East upon the Australian example which, in turn, / was an adaption and improvement of the method tested by the Brit‘ish in the Middle East. Your correspondent has talked in the hospital with two men who were severely burned in the oil-covered waters of Darwin harbor when the gallant old four-stacker, Admiral Peary, went down with other vessels in the first heavy Japanese raid. They are Frederick B. Plummer, first class seaman of Earl, Ark. and Lawrence T. Farley, second - class water tender of Pennsboro, We Va. : These men are the most recent who have been treated by Dr. Martin P, Smith. Dr. Smith took his M. D. at the University of Pittsburgh in 1933 working his way through as Greyhound bus driver, manager of a big uptown movie palace and even a professional pallbearer.

He is an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, who taught himself to operate with both hands instead of right handed in order to be able to work from either side of a recumbent patient, practiced privately in “Middletown” Muncie, Ind., and : thereafter was instructor of surgery at the University of Buffalo and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Smith sailed from Hawail 10 days before war was declared, his assignment being Guam where all his medical instruments had been sent. All were lost and the first American naval hospital unit, after assorted meanderings in the South seas, found itself in temporary _ quarters somewhere in Australia. The Australian nurses, whom Dr. Smith describes as the “gamest gals in the world,” became his co-workers in a hospital which then had 200 beds. All the personnel lived in tents and did their own washing in buckets. Fresh vegetables and fruits "being almost non-existent — ember of the staff pinned a ticket on on pineapples gro in the garden. Erowis

Introduced to Navy

Dr. Smith first introduced the new burn treatment to the navy - after his transfer made it possible to treat under better conditions. The new method requires a large bath shaped like a cross in which the patients float with their heads resting upon ' water-borne inflated pillows. Formerly, fresh burns were treated with tannic acid which makes ugly twists and distortions of surface skin. This is caused by tannic

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will help in ending the shortage of flying instructoss. The first 10 members have completed their instructor refresher course at the Hoosier airport. Two of the group, William Colwell and Donald Lodge, both of Indianapolis, have already been assigned to instructors’ duties at White Bear Lake, Minn. . Others in the group are Eugene Fales, South Bend: Gerald Schlaeger, Evansville; Charles Schwartz, Indianapolis; Beecher Waters, Indisnapolis; Gerald Musselman, Anderson; James Robinson, Anderson, and George Marcicilli, Marion. } As soon as flight tests are completed, the pilots are given civilian ratings and will be assigned to army schools under army supervision. Refresher courses last about 40 days and the students, already experienced civilian pilots, are paid by the army and live at the Hoosier airport while training.

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France, called tullegras, but because tullegras cannot now be obtained lace curtains are used. They must be white or cream and natural coiored without dye.

Free of Distortion

Tullegras is used to protect the sulfanilimide solution, which is puffed or spread on underneath ach lacy bandage with an atomizer: Sometimes the bandage is impregnated with a mixture of balsam of peru and vaseline. Instead of having face, torso and limbs “pulled up by their burns,” Dr. Smith's patients are virtually free of distortions. Moreover, they are relieved: not only of immediate pain but also of fear of disfigurement, which is a large psychological factor in recovery. Sometimes skin grafting is used after this treatment to complete repairs. But eventually, the result, as in the case of Plummer and Farley is fresh, healthy skin over every wound.

Rest Comfortably

It is astonishing to see the patients negligently floating their way back to health and normal appearance. They spend the time in the cruciform bath reading, smoking cigaretes and sometimes singing. The hospital where this method was first tried on navy patients

now also has American army doc-|

tors. Temporarily, after the return of Lieut. Comm. Dr. C. McAlmont Wassell, the Arkansas physician who rescued wounded from the cruisers Houston and Marblehead from the hospital at Jogjakarta in Java and was, thereafter, mentioned in President Roosevelt's broadcast, after being decorated with the navy cross. This unit was under Dr. Wassell’s command. Dr. Wassell has now moved elsewhere and Dr. Smith has become again the head of the unit.

BAR GROUP TAKES SUMMER RECESS

The Marion Bar association has discontinued its meetings for the summer months. The association is composed of Negro lawyers admitted to practice before the state supreme court. Officers of the group are Wilson Beane, president; Carey D. Jacobs, treasurer; R. B. H. Smith, secretary, and Charles Q. Mattocks, as-

sistant secretary.

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CHICAGO, July 2 (U. P)—Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, Rochester, Minn., said today in the journal of the American Medical association, that many chronically ailing persons were constitutionally inadequate and were wasting their ‘money on doctors, seeking permanent cures. “Many of the chronically ailing patiénts seen daily by medical consultants are constitutionally inadequate persons, unable to stand a well to the strains of “life,” Dr Alvarez said. “They cannot be ered as they hope to be by the discovery and eradication of any local disease. “Again” and again these patients go to some consultant or medical institution with the idea that -this time they will get examined so thoroughly that the cause of their troubles will be found and perhaps removed. Again and again they get overhauled, and each time the physician finds some little abnormality or physical perculiarity which he views with alarm and treats for a while. . . .”

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