The news breaks - 8 killed and 47 injured, or 25 killed and 100 injured, and one expects the death toll to increase significantly over the following few days, but it doesn't.

Now injuries from explosions, or from being mown down by a car, are likely to be pretty severe, aren't they? The lesson appears to be that if you can get to a hospital alive, no matter how mangled, quacks will be able to keep you alive.

wd advances in medical science.