Word: bettman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eric Cutler's doctors have finally forbidden him to swim for the rest of this year, so the Varsity will have to wait awhile for the services of the holder of the Freshman 220 and 440 records. Hal Ulen, Gil Bettman, and Jim Curwen are all holding their breath to see if the two latter will get off pro. With Curwen around, it's possible that a few records may fall in the 440-yard open relay. And it's possible even if he isn't around, if Dons Barker and McKay, Will Kendal and Charlie Hutter...
...Bettman, who would be one of the first four breast-strokers, has been snatched away by probation; also lost are Curwen and Stowell, free-stylers...
...girl of 7 stripped naked last week to show a group of local doctors how new treatments for burns had saved their lives. Immediately after their accidents, both had been bathed in tannic acid and silver nitrate. This treatment, which Portland's Plastic Surgeon Adalbert G. Bettman invented (TIME, March 18, 1935), "leatherized'' the burned areas and enabled healing to start...
When the leatherized skin tore, as occasionally happens, Dr. Bettman resorted to isografts. These are razor thin strips of skin (taken from a donor whose blood matches the patient's) laid over the raw surfaces. Such isografts soon disintegrate but temporarily they act as a natural dressing and, when supplemented by a preparation called "oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization...
...yard free style swim--Won by Good (Y); second Walker (H); third Bettman (H). Time...