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“Being a doctor in those days,” Smith said, “simply meant that you had to meet situations head-on and do the best you could with what you had at hand.”He recalled particularly one case in which mouth-to-mouth resuscitation worked and a newborn started breathing after 20 minutes of hectic work.“Oh, there were many such cases.” the doctor observed. “It was just a case of doing everything you could while hoping for the best.” Smith recalled another instance in which he had to administer glucose while a patient was lying on the sidewalk. “The man had cut his arm and lost so much blood that everyone thought he was dead. That was many years ago — and if that man is dead now\ he died recently.”Then, there was the instance of the dilated stomach — in which a huge man had stopped breathing — and a blow to the abdomen was needed to restore processes.What would be the procedure with that patient now?“Well, that’s hard to say — but at the very least he would be computerized.“But now you see,” the doctor expanded, “it's a whole new ball game. In the old days it was largely a matter of prescribing hard medicines like quinine and calomel — and fighting pain and epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox and whooping cough.“Now epidemics have been stopped with vaccines — and there are the miracle drugs — the synthetics and antibiotics — to fight pain and infection. The drug industry deserves most of the recognition for all of this progress in conquering human ills, he ended.
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Wilson Daily Times
Wilson, North Carolina, US
Sat, Jun 05, 1971
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