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...Russia, Guadalcanal doctors attack a wounded man's three worst enemies -shock, infection, delay. While still on the field-if possible-a man is treated to stop bleeding and reduce shock. He may get an injection of blood plasma, collected by the Red Cross back home, may take tablets of an infection-preventing sulfa drug which he carries into battle with him. Like many a Russian soldier, the U.S. soldiers are flown to a hospital, but Guadalcanal's hospital is "several hundred miles away" on another island...
Blood is needed badly by the soldiers, the Center explained, because it staves off shock, coma, and death. The casualties of the Cocoaunt Grove holocaust required a tremendous amount of plasma to revive the injured from the shock brought on by burns and loss of blood...
...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
...cells with the emotional thalamus, so that a normal mind is a more or less harmonious mixture of intellect and emotion. But sometimes this integration takes on a fixed, unhealthy pattern: foresight becomes anxiety, anxiety becomes fear, and the psychotic victim may head for lunacy unless treated by psychoanalysis, shock therapy (e.g., with electricity or insulin) or-as a last resort -psychosurgery...
James Watson Gerard, 75, U.S. Ambassador to Germany in World War I, was knocked down in Manhattan by a bakery truck, sent to bed with a scalp wound and shock...