Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors washed her, gave her the standard textbook treatment: a coating of tannic acid solution to ease her pain, keep out harmful bacteria, seal in her body fluids. After a severe burn, blood escapes from the capillaries into tissue spaces, and circulation "dries up," stagnates. So the doctors followed their textbook schedule by feeding and injecting the baby with enormous quantities of water and fruit juices. For two days she was quiet and fairly comfortable; on the third day she swelled up, lost consciousness, went into convulsions, died...
...While these experimental studies were in progress," the doctors were called on to treat severe back and chest burns of a 15-year-old girl. They gently bathed her in soap and water, but gave her no tannic acid, permitted only occasional mouthfuls of water to moisten her throat, and placed her in an oxygen tent...
...injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...
...Uric acid retained in the bloodstream is likely to form chalky, stony deposits in the joints and in the cartilage of the ears. Frequently first to suffer is the joint of the big toe, then ankles, knees, hands and wrists. Common symptoms: cramps, inflammation, fever, headache, neuralgia, together with hot, itching feet (known to ancients as "the lisping of the gout...
...Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...