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I remember when I was working as a nurse at the Royal Cardiff Infirmary. One morning I was woken up at 2am as there was a convoy of wounded soldiers coming in an hour later. There were convoys with wounded soldiers coming in all the time - they were brought off the boats and driven to the hospital and onto the wards. A lot of these soldiers had their wounds covered with plaster of Paris - they'd discovered that it was a good way of keeping wounds clean until they reached hospital. They put the mutilated arms and legs in the plaster of Paris and gave them penicillin - once the limbs were enclosed and the patient given penicillin this usually stopped any further infection, if already infected. If they survived the journey and got to hospital they usually did very well.

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