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Squishy Trails. With its headquarters on 113 acres of Civil War battleground at" the District-Maryland line, Walter Reed has mushroomed since it opened in 1909 as a memorial to the famed conqueror of yellow fever. For all its latter-day interest in such matters as freeze-anesthesia and radiation sickness, the Army must still, like Reed, plod squishy jungle trails to track down diseases that beset its men in the tropics. Among Walter Reed's works-in-progress...
...bundle of nerves behind the forehead. Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water (158°F.), which kills the sensory nerves. Dr. Jaeger has had good results in 27 of 32 tic victims...
...groups as the A.H.A. and A.M.A.) on accreditation: of 1,385 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada inspected last year, one-third failed to pass. That is, by commission standards, the medical staff may have been inadequately trained, or possibly the hospitals showed high death rates from operations, poor anesthesia departments, high maternal mortality, too few or ill-trained nurses, sloppy records, or poor physical plants...
...suffered 45% body-surface burns in a boiler explosion. His dressings could only be changed under anesthesia; he feared moving his painfully burned hands and fingers. The Southwestern team started daily hypnosis; shunning narcotics, the patient obediently began to exercise his hands as instructed every 30 minutes, even in his sleep, until the doctors stopped him with a posthypnotic order...
...suffered from 35% burns, started hypnotic treatment only four hours after the injury. As a result, no anesthesia was required to dull pain, even during skin grafts. With a good appetite and exercise, C. J. spent only 18 days in hospital...