46 THE ACTION OF THE LIVING CELL 



The reader interested in the history of the author's 

 views on the toxic nature of shock is referred to these 

 authors, and especially to two papers by the writer 

 published in 1922 and 1929, entitled respectively 

 "Shock and Fatigue" and "Researches on the Shock 

 Reaction before the Great War, Confirmed by Ac- 

 tual Experience in War." The latter paper contains 

 a review of our investigations from the time of their 

 inception, and the former contains a number of de- 

 tailed protocols of the experiments on shock. 



In a recent publication, Zschau (1931) has pointed 

 out that the so-called electrosurgery has an advantage 

 over the ordinary methods of surgical procedure, in 

 that the incidence of operative shock is unusually 

 slight. This he attributes to the fact that the resorp- 

 tion of the products of tissue disintegration is con- 

 siderably lessened by the lymph coagulation which 

 attends the use of the electric knife, but does not take 

 place when ordinary surgical methods are employed. 



