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...those in Class 3-A (dependent-deferred) who want to serve but can't support their families on $21 a month, the Army offered a way out: Any 3-A-men, sound of wind & limb, with a high-school education, may volunteer for officer training. If accepted, they will get four months' training in the ranks, either wind up successfully in officer's training school with subsequent commissions as second lieutenants ($125 a month) or return home unsuccessfully as Enlisted Reserves, possibly to be called up later as privates if the 3-As are tapped...
Heat v. Cold. Blood clots may lodge in the lungs, cause instant death. They may also form in arms or legs, choke off circulation. If they lodge in an artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...
...absolutely incorrect." Reason: heat increases metabolism of the tissues, raises their need for fresh blood. To prevent gangrene, tissue metabolism in the legs should be slowed down, the blood vessels given less work to do. Hence he puts ice bags around legs and feet until pain disappears and the limb is able to get enough circulation from substitute blood vessels...
Local "freezing" instead of general anesthesia has cut the death rate in the amputation of gangrenous limbs from 83% to 18%, Drs. Frederick Madison Allen and Lyman W. Crossman of New York City's Welfare Hospital reported last week. The three-stage operation: 1) the limb's blood supply is cut off by a tourniquet; 2) it is anesthetized by cooling to just above freezing with a refrigerating coil; 3) it is amputated. The low temperature reduces post operative infection...
...dash westward straight across the desert to Giálo, thence northward toward the shore between Bengazi and Tripoli. By the time the southern unit had reached the oasis at Giálo, the coastal forces were behind schedule, leaving the Giálo unit out on a limb. Though Ritchie took over on Nov. 26, only eight days after the offensive had begun, it was too late to repair the damage...