SURGICAL DISCOVERY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 11

SURGICAL DISCOVERY

■ « MAY SUPPLANT ANTISEPTICS. What is described as the greatest surgical discovery since Lister's antiseptic (says a Paris correspondent) is now at the service of tho French wounded. It is an anti-toxin discovered by the' wellknown bacteriologists, Professors La Chainche and VaJleo, tho nso of which discovery is likely to supplant the antiseptics in preventing infection of the wounds. The antiseptics, though killing the disease, also weaken and benumb the tissues, thus delaying the cicatrisation of the wound, whereas tho new serum, called polyvalent, because efi'ective against all malignant germs, actually stimulates the tissue surrounding the wound and promotes rapid healing. The discoverers, who are in chargo of the Alfort National Veterinary School, have twenty-five horses under treatment, from which they get forty thousand five-cubic-centimetre doses -monthly. Extensive experiments show a decrease in the pain and fever a few hours after the injection, accompanied by a rapid cessation of inflammation. Where the injection is made before the infootion develops the wounds invariably heal without complication. ~~l— !>> 1 A circumstance which lias appealed to latter-day golfing visitors to the United States (says au English writer) is the rapid development of the indoor-golf-sohool movement. At home wc have n certain number of institutions at which busy people who are baffled by the difficulties of the game may snatch an hour from the office and try to master driving by hitting a ball into a net supported by a sufficiently convincing backcloth depicting a famous links, or may even learn the valuable art of atoning for sin by delving with a niblick into a real sand bunker. It is doubtful, howover, whether there are a dozen such seminaries in the whole of the United Kingdom, whereas there seem to be a lot m every big city in the United States. Tho explanation is not hard to seek; except in the South the game is impossible in America during the winter months, so that it is the most natural thing in the world that indoor resorts should have been opened for the benefit of people who wanted to keep their constitutions attuned to the task of urging an ever recalcitrant ball to its proper resting place. Not until this year have the schools been built on such a scale of magnificence nor in such lusty numbers. Tom Wells, tho pioneer of the scheme in New York, has exhibited considerable ingenuity in preparing his places-of tuition. Accuracy is tested by a ring of colours, apparently like a target, at which youths of sporting disposition aim darts and rubber-rings at seaside and country fairs. Gutta-percha balls are used so as to lessen the rebound, and the ball which comes bacit to the striker bearing a different colour from that in the centre of the target carries a conviction. It has been mishit. Hitherto it has been one of the weaknesses of the indoor sjhool system that a player practising without the assistance of a professional could not often be sure whether ho was doing justice or injustice to his game The ban might fly strongly and cleanly from the club, but unless bo had an uncommonly keen eye and a remarkable capacity for cool calculation lie could not be certain that, given another 200 yards to go, it would have flown straight or carried the big bunker, which had been bis bete lioir ever since they made it 120 yards in front of the first tee on his favourite course. On the premises, 208 Tinakori Road, Messrs. C. \V. Price and Co. will sell the contents of u woll-furnislied six-roomed house, including upright grand piano.