History lesson

“There will always be a connection between the way in which men contemplate the past and the way in which they contemplate the present”

Thomas Buckle.

I was recently the beneficiary of a remarkable gift from Martin Kiernan. The gift in question was a small navy hard backed book of some 542 pages. It was published in 1924 by the F.A. Davis Company.The book was ”Intravenous Therapy: Its application in the modern practice of medicine” by Walter Forest Dutton MD (1924).What is so remarkable about an IV text from the early 20th century? The same year Lenin died and J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the FBI.Well, it is simply that Dutton describes how “Plunging a needle directly into a vein can be accomplished with perfect ease and safety under proper aseptic precautions, so that no scar or mark of any kind is left to indicate the site of injection”.How remarkable that someone could write these words in 1924 and that they remain one hundred percent applicable today.

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