Shock at the Front (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Townsend Porter

9780365250692: Shock at the Front (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365250694 ISBN 13: 9780365250692

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This was a truth which threw a new light on the mechanism of the disease, enlarged our knowledge of normal respiration, and gave a lead for methods of relief hitherto unimagined.

How far that seemed from the trenches! But trust in the improbable underlies all creative effort. Hope, in this life the cap ital of the poor and the medicine of the sad, rests on the unexpected. And most unexpected was the coming of a letter from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, asking if I would consent to go to France to search for the cause of 'shock' and for a remedy. In half an hour I wired consent. After thirty months of thinking, controlled by rigid experimentation, on the one subject of pneumonia, the spring fret was strong in my blood, and the great game of war had a deep appeal.

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