Hospital gangrene

However, the policy that obtained was to send those who were not likely to recover quickly to the base [general] hospitals, though this was not always to the patient s best interests, for these larger hospitals were oftentimes centers of infection of one kind or another, especially of hospital gangrene [pyemia], which seldom attacked the wounded in the field. ... 

M. Goldsmith, A Report on Hospital Gangrene, Erysipelas and Pycemia, As Observed in the Departments of the Ohio and the Cumberlands, Sanitary Commission, T (Louisville Bradley and Gilbert, 1863), p. 5. 

In addition to its merapeutic use, this phage preparation was also used by mobile sanitary brigades as an emergency aid for treatment of wounds (prophylaxis of gas gangrene). Krestovnikova [27] summarized me observations of mree mobile sanitary brigades carried out over periods of 2-6 weeks following evacuation to frontline hospitals. 

Martin adds the fact that Coley s Toxins were effective in treating patients having foot ulcers and a gangrenous condition, with symptoms of cold feet and lack of a pulse in the lower leg. Conducted by a Dr. Harry Gray at a Veterans Administration Hospital in the 1930s, amputation was avoided. This treatment is presumed to be effective for diabetic patients with foot ulcers. It is further noted that, at the present, physician Glen Wilcoxson, M.D., of Spanish Fort, Alabama, is treating patients with Coley s Toxins. 

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