Word: antisepticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a soldier is wounded by shrapnel, or a civilian by splinters of flying glass, don't treat the wound with an antiseptic. This piece of advice was given by the Journal of the American Medical Association last week. In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The...
Dirty as they may be, said the Journal, "fresh wounds should be visualized as containing relatively few bacteria." These are soon killed by body tissues, "if given a chance." Infection arises when wounds are washed with soap & water, or flushed with antiseptic. This is "almost sure to introduce many new...
Pinta, a tropical skin disease, caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and...
Commented the Lancet, arch in the midst of bombs: "It is a strange turn of the wheel which has revealed antiseptic properties in the odour of sanctity."
Part of that little is the work of William Carlos Williams. A Rutherford, N. J. baby specialist and poet, Williams in his best verse gives the simple objects of existence the glistening integrity of pebbles in a quick stream. In White Mule, three years ago, he trained his poet-doctor...