Word: bettman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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December 2, "Planning Law, Illustrated by Court Cases," by Alfred Bettman, Lawyer, of Cincinnati...
Last week Dr. Adalbert G. Bettman of the University of Oregon reported a further effective treatment of severe burns and scalds. He gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
First desperate case to get the Bettman treatment was a Portland, Ore. motor car dealer named Roy Burnett. Ten days after being extensively burned about the head in an accident, Mr. Burnett shaved, in 42 days left the hospital. Dr. Bettman keeps in his office pieces of the leather he peeled from Mr. Burnett's burns...
...Bettman, only specialist in plastic surgery in the Pacific Northwest, got the idea of combining tannic acid and silver nitrate for burns from his procedure for removing tattoo marks. To remove tattoos he injects tannic acid and silver nitrate solutions with a tattooing machine over the original marks. At once a black coagulum forms. The leathery surface, with the design dimly visible, peels off in a few days...
...home and whose plan for making the unemployed produce their own necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning; Sociologist Edith Elmer Wood, author of Recent Trends in American Housing. The conference talked & talked, adopted resolutions endorsing most opinions advanced. Chief opinions: 1) slum dwellers should be moved to homesteads on city outskirts, encouraged to provide their own food, maintain...