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...speed in care and transportation, two developments since World War II did much to improve the lot of the wounded. For one thing, the Army has been encouraging specialization in the Medical Corps. Since 1946, hundreds of medics have gone into a three-year residency in such specialties as chest surgery, orthopedics and psychiatry. When the Reds struck in June, many of these medical specialists were rushed to the Far East...
...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
...others. Drs. Louis C. Roettig and Howard G. Reiser of Ohio State University's College of Medicine reported on a treatment using trypsin. An enzyme (one of the body's mysterious chemical catalysts), trypsin dissolves dead tissue, but seems to leave the living tissue in the chest unharmed...
Theodore A. Trent-Lyon, who received his Bachelor of Sacred Theory here in 1945, allegedly shot and killed Dr. Lewis Thorne, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, when Thorne answered the door-bell at his New Haven home Sunday. His wife Helen received wounds in the head and chest when she went to investigate the shots...
Besides, he had pleasanter things to think about. Out of the blue appeared the Regular Veterans Association (membership: 78,000), bearing a gold medal to add to the fruit salad splashed across the bulky Vaughan chest. The medal, said the citation, was "for meritorious services to the Armed Services and the veterans of the United States...