Wound infections : and some new methods for the study of the various factors which come into consideration in their treatment / by Sir Almroth E. Wright.

  • Wright, Almroth, 1861-1947.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Wound infections : and some new methods for the study of the various factors which come into consideration in their treatment / by Sir Almroth E. Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subordinated to the Director-General, and his duties would be to bring up the work of the medical officers everywhere to the highest standard, and to co¬ ordinate their work from hospital to hospital. It would further, I think, be necessary to have an Advising Committee who should be charged with the duty of synopsising the clinical experience won in the war; of finding out what results the various therapeutic procedures had given; and of drawing up on the basis of these inquiries general instruc¬ tions and recommendations for the treatment of different categories of cases. On a Committee of this sort one would, of course, wish to see repre¬ sentatives of surgery, of medicine, of the various specialities, and of pathology and bacteriological science. But one would wish to see the member¬ ship restricted to those who were actually at work at the seat of war, and who were prepared to take full responsibility, and carefully to watch the work¬ ing of the recommendations, and at any moment to revise them in the light of accumulating experience or further laboratory experiments. Finally, one would wish to see attached to such a committee a Research Department for the reso¬ lution of all bacteriological questions arising in connexion with hygiene, surgery, and medicine. And I may perhaps be allowed, in connexion with