With Drill, Telephone, and Electric Implements the Modern Surgeon Salves War's Human Wreck

Titolo: With Drill, Telephone, and Electric Implements the Modern Surgeon Salves War's Human Wreck
Oggetto: en Technology; en Medical techniques and tools
Article Title and/or Image Caption: With Drill, Telephone, and Electric Implements the Modern Surgeon Salves War's Human Wreck; Caption 1: Using one of the new electric bullet detectors. A bell tinkles when the embedded bullet or splinter is encountered; Caption 2: Some simple instruments which are used in probing for bullets or shell splinters in the limbs or body; Caption 3: This shows the method of taking radiographs of the human head in the military hospitals; Caption 4: Drilling through the skull is made easier and safer by the use of the precision drill. This is far ahead of the old style trephine; Caption 5: This electric cutter is used to great advantage in cutting plaster of paris casts when the doctor desires to remove them; Caption 6: The new electric bullet detector is shown here all folded up in its compact carrying case
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War I
Data di rilascio: 1918-05
pagine: 662-663
Diritti: Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Archived by: Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)