Derek Prince Writes About His Experience As A ...  PRO

Derek Prince writes about his experience as a medic in World War II:

A British soldier had come into our reception station with a shrapnel wound caused by a bomb exploding near him. He took off his shirt, exposing a small puncture wound in one shoulder. The edge of the wound was slightly black.

Thinking of the ready-to-use sterile dressing that was part of our medical equipment, I said to the medical officer, “Shall I get a first field dressing, sir?”

“No, that’s not what’s needed,” the doctor replied. “Bring me a probe.”

The doctor had the man sir down on a chair. Then he stuck the little silver stick into the man’s wound and wiggled it around gingerly for a few moments. Suddenly the man let out a yelp and went up in the air.

“Now fetch me the forceps,” the doctor said.

I gave him the forceps, which he inserted into the wound in the area where the probe had located the foreign body. Cautiously he extracted a little piece of black metal. After cleaning the wound, he finally said to me, “Now you can bring the dressing.”

Afterward he explained, “You see, the piece of shrapnel that caused the puncture was still in there. If you just cover that shrapnel up with a dressing without removing it, it will be a continuing source of infection and will cause further...

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