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Prinzipien und Technik der heutigen Wundbehandlung / von Max Jaffé.

Durch welche Arbeiten können sich im Kriege die Frauen nützlich machen? : ein brief an die Vorsitzende eines Hülfsvereines / von Friedrich Esmarch.

<p>This documentary examines the idea that cooling an injured person's body can save people who would otherwise die or suffer serious brain damage. Lance-Corporal Denzel Connick talks about being hit by a shell during the Falklands War, losing his legs, and lying out in the cold until help came. Doctors who served in the Falklands (Ian Jolly and Professor James Ryan) explain that many severely injured soldiers survived against the odds. It was 'like an experiment' which showed the value of keeping injured people's bodies cool. Scientists are looking for a drug which can 'suspend animation' in people. The film shows turtles which can hibernate for months without breathing and Haitian witch doctors who claim to be able to kill and reanimate people. The witch doctors' vital ingredient seems to be powdered puffer fish, which contains a powerful toxin. We hear how the toxin nearly killed a bodybuilder who ate puffer fish. Hopes of therapeutic use are limited, however, as finding a safe dose is considered almost impossible. During the cold war, Russian scientists researched the medical usefulness of extreme cold. They froze dogs for hours and managed to revive them. When the dogs later showed signs of internal damage, they abandoned research into cold. Dr Peter Safar's team have done animal experiments which show that cooling (not freezing) is therapeutic. Safar suggests the main cause of brain damage during trauma is that trauma causes a wave of chemical messages in the brain telling cells to self-destruct. Cooling stops the wave from spreading, thus preventing damage. Sharon Daly, 27, had sudden cardiac death and failed to revive after shock treatment. Dr S Tisherman (Safar colleague) tried the new technique of cooling. Sharon's heart restarted and she recovered. There are now clinical trials of cooling therapy being carried out throughout the world. The footage includes: British soldiers in Falklands War. Wounded soldiers. Field hospital. Russian frozen-dog experiments (dogs in ice, being revived). Dead boy pulled out of freezing lake (boy later revived). Voodoo witch doctors. Puffer fish. Bodybuilder (nearly died). Transfer of casualty from helicopter to ambulance. Computer-generated images of brain cells, chemical messages.</p>

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1 videocassette (VHS) (23 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Raising the dead.

xx, [25]-309 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Earth as a topical application in surgery : Being a full exposition of its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania hospital during a period of six months in 1869 / by Addinell Hewson.

8 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Specification of Morris Mattson : apparatus for administering injections.

A sketch of the principles and practice of subcutaneous surgery : being the oration delivered before the Medical Society of London at their eighty-fourth anniversary, March 9, 1857 / by William Adams.

A practical essay on the use of the nitrate of silver in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, and ulcers / by John Higginbottom.

The aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; with a preface by Prof. Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.

3 parts in 1 volume, II leaves of plates ; 25 cm (8vo)

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Prinzipien und Technik der heutigen Wundbehandlung / von Max Jaffé.

Durch welche Arbeiten können sich im Kriege die Frauen nützlich machen? : ein brief an die Vorsitzende eines Hülfsvereines / von Friedrich Esmarch.

Raising the dead.

Earth as a topical application in surgery : Being a full exposition of its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania hospital during a period of six months in 1869 / by Addinell Hewson.

Specification of Morris Mattson : apparatus for administering injections.

A sketch of the principles and practice of subcutaneous surgery : being the oration delivered before the Medical Society of London at their eighty-fourth anniversary, March 9, 1857 / by William Adams.

A practical essay on the use of the nitrate of silver in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, and ulcers / by John Higginbottom.

The aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; with a preface by Prof. Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.

Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell, surgeon.

A clinical lecture on the primary treatment of injuries : delivered at the New-York Hospital, November 22d, 1837 / by Alex. H. Stevens.

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Prinzipien und Technik der heutigen Wundbehandlung / von Max Jaffé.

Durch welche Arbeiten können sich im Kriege die Frauen nützlich machen? : ein brief an die Vorsitzende eines Hülfsvereines / von Friedrich Esmarch.

Raising the dead.

Earth as a topical application in surgery : Being a full exposition of its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania hospital during a period of six months in 1869 / by Addinell Hewson.

Specification of Morris Mattson : apparatus for administering injections.

A sketch of the principles and practice of subcutaneous surgery : being the oration delivered before the Medical Society of London at their eighty-fourth anniversary, March 9, 1857 / by William Adams.

A practical essay on the use of the nitrate of silver in the treatment of inflammation, wounds, and ulcers / by John Higginbottom.

The aseptic treatment of wounds / by C. Schimmelbusch ; with a preface by Prof. Bergmann ; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by Alfred Theodore Rake.

Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell, surgeon.

A clinical lecture on the primary treatment of injuries : delivered at the New-York Hospital, November 22d, 1837 / by Alex. H. Stevens.

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