ALLIES OF THE SURGEON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 6

ALLIES OF THE SURGEON.

UNEXPECTED RESULT OF THE WAR.

Surgeons are finding in Hie bullet and the piece of shrapnel an unexpected ally so far as the elucidation of medical and scientific problems is concerned.

Before the war there were regions of the body concerning which littie was known/; disease seldom visited them directly, yet profound effects seemed to follow from their derangement during the course of illnesses of remote origin. Brain conditions are a good example of this.

To-day the bullet has penetrated directly where disease did not go, and so to-day medical men are having revealed to them all manner of new considerations and new conceptions. It says much for the acumen of the Army Medical Staff that they are alive to this new state of affairs and that every facility is being given for careful study of the many strange cases which are being met with. Posterity will certainly reap a great reward in better knowledge and better melius of treatment. Amongst all the evils of the war it is at least satisfactory to know that one evil has been found out of which lasting benefit may come to humanity.