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...fire grew. At 4 p.m. the smoke suddenly changed from brown to milky white and a shaft of orange flame shot high into the air. The ship's bridge melted, her crazed masts toppled overside. The fire brigade chief ordered "abandon ship," swiftly followed his men onto the dock. At 4:07 the first explosion came...
...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...
...hampers digestion, 3) causes compression of the back part of the lungs, 4) robs bones of chalk, 5) weakens muscles, 6) lowers morale (because of bedpans, etc.). The arguments for bed rest are that it cuts down energy consumption and promotes healing. But contrary to common belief, declared Dr. Dock, sitting up in a chair takes little (if any) more energy than lying down. Robbing bones of chalk is no way to heal fractures. Doctors should learn to repair operation wounds so that a little motion will not burst them open...
...Illogical As Bleedings." Most bedrest deaths are caused by big, migrating blood clots which form in veins constricted by the unnatural position. "In the last 300 autopsies on adults in [New York Hospital]," reported Dr. Dock, "15, or 5%, died of pulmonary embolism second ary to thrombi in the legs or pelvis." A little moving around, he asserted, could have saved these people...
...Army Is Right. Dr. Dock urged a return to the nursing customs of Florence Nightingale's day when all but prostrated patients got up for meals, bathroom going, etc. There is evidence that bedrest deaths have gone up since nursing became so expert that a patient never needs to move. He had many good words to say for the Army's convalescent program (TIME, Nov. 15), which makes men move uninjured parts of their bodies as soon as they can, and normally gets head injuries out of bed in a matter of days...