Word: asepticism
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Sweet Vapors. The half-legendary Indian surgeon Susruta,* says Dr. Kirby, was able to operate successfully for cataract by piercing the eyeball and pushing the clouded lens down out of the light rays' path. This partly restored the patient's sight, though not his power to focus. Susruta...
The Cry and the Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women...
Locked in some cool aseptic heaven above,
Back Door. Loewy, whose first soap wrapper design was for Lehn & Fink Products Corp., came into the Unilever empire through the back door. In 1938, up & coming young Charles Luckman hired him to redesign the package for Pepsodent toothpaste. Most toothpaste packages then screamed for attention with garish red containers...
Since 1938, an Orinocan stream of distinguished Latin American visitors has debouched into the U.S. The U.S. Government pays their expenses, shows them the sights (chiefly industrial), crams them with information (chiefly factual). Guided by aseptic civil servants, the visitors trudge through endless factories, offices, universities, laboratories, museums; are dined...