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Title: Ellington 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Air bases--Texas--Houston Flight training--Texas--Houston
Publisher: (Houston, Tex.) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Rice University, Fondren Library
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and a quarter of an inch square, was taken from the leg that was whole and graftedonto the injured member by the plating method, and today the man is on the road to recovery. Once a pieceof bone was taken from a mans leg to patch up his arm, which had been badly shattered in an accident. In another instance a wreck victim had an ear almost torn off. The mangled remnants were hangingby a mere thread. Captain Burns assembled what remained, and with cartilage taken from the patientsribs, fashioned the spare parts necessary, and sewed his handiwork on the mans head. The novel experimentwas a great success, and little difference can be noted in the two ears. In one unusual case, a man was neatly scalped. He was brought into the hospital with his hair hang-ing down his back, like a little school girl, while one eyebrow was missing completely. The scalp wassewed back in place, with the exception of a small piece taken from the back, where the hair was short. Page 35) ( ELLINGTON FIELD—1918
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ELLINGTON FIELD—1918) (Page 36 This Captain Burns shaped up properly, using the one good brow as a pattern, and put in place where itthrived and grew as any eyebrow should. When the patient recovered, little difference could be noted in hisappearance. A\hile the treatment of crash victims attracts more attention than the work in any other branch, on ac-count of the unusual circumstances surrounding such cases, the fact must not be lost sight of that theEllington Field hospital has done a great work in many other lines. The record of the local institution during the recent epidemic of Spanish Influenza is an enviable one.The number of new cases each day was kept at a remarkably low figure by the prompt action of Major A.R. Goodman, Post Surgeon, in recommending a strict quarantine of the Post, and enforcing to the letterdrastic regulations to prevent the spread of the disease. All barracks were inspected once, and some timestwice each day, all meetings of the men were forbidden, and

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