Abstract
We are making a report about the outline of the sequela of head injuries received by battle just before and during the World War II on the basis of summarized data for the 25th commemoration of the sanitorium foundation.
From this report we tried to go into details of how head injuries had been treated in the early days of the war and where and what sort of the operation had been performed, and how many cases were treated. We selected 68 patients who were admitted to pro-visional Tokyo 3rd Army Hospital.
The cases of cephatic trauma were classified into three groups by the periods of war, first one year from 1937 to 1938, second two years from 1939 to 1941, third three years from 1942 to 1945. Moreover we reviewed the medical information of the unit-treatment in conjunction with the army medical school at Tokyo 3rd Army Hospital, and obtained the following results.
1 For the first aid the unit-surgeons had dressed sufferer's injuries with antiseptic bandages before emergencies occurred and they had taken immediate action to save a life.
2 As the war was intense, it was difficult to remove the wounded from the battle field. At that time the treatment by the hospital was a very simple one.
Neurosurgery made the great advances during the intense part of the war forcing surgeons to do so much head surgery.
3 The above operations did not result in bad prognosis.
4 Though very little surgery was performed during the first one year, yet it increased greatly during the next few years and head surgery progressed rapidly.
Especially the army medical school attempted difficult cases and made a great ad-vance.
