Word: antisepticized
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> Propamidine is a new synthetic British antiseptic which attacks streptococci and staphylococci in wounds. Applied in a salve made of vaseline, it makes many wounds sterile in ten days. The salve is irritating to normal skin.
Unlike TNT, which calls for ammonia, sulfuric and nitric acids and toluene, hexamine requires no critical materials. Its basic raw ingredients are coke, air and water. Total production in U.S. in '1941 was 4,000,000 lb. New factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But...
For an anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes...
The antiseptic soaps are not true soaps made of fat and lye but the recent "soapless soaps" (TIME, Jan. 5). The most powerful disinfectants among them are complicated organic compounds based on ammonium. Their use in softening, cleansing and disinfection is due to a positive charge on the organic part...
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...