WAR AND SURGERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 5, 7 January 1916, Page 3

WAR AND SURGERY.

“Surgeons are finding in the bullet and the piece of shrapnel an unexpected ally so far as the elucidation of medical and scietniflc problems is concerned,” states the “Times.” “Before the war there were regions of the body concerning which little was known; dise ise seldom visited them directly, yet profound effects seemed to follow from their derangement during the course o fillnesg of remote origin. Brain conditions are a good example of this. Tc-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 thsi 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 methods of treatment. Amongst all the evils of the wa it is at least satisfactory to know that one evil has been found out of which lasting bene- | fit may come to humanity.”