The 17-year-old Arab girl had no business to be still alive : when Captain W. W. Wilson of the Royal Army Medical Corps first saw her, she had been shot in the abdomen eight days before and the wide wound, leaking intestinal contents, was untended except for a packing of tow, a dressing of mud and torn clothing. Ordinarily, such an untreated wound means peritonitis (infection of the abdominal lining) and almost inevitable death. Yet the girl had not even a fever.
In last week's Lancet, Captain Wilson explained her amazing survival: on...
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