Word: cod
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...treatment is a refinement of a method used before World War I but largely neglected since. It consists simply in spraying the burned areas with a melted mixture of paraffin wax, vaseline, cod-liver oil and sulfanilamide (plus traces of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus oil). This wax film is gently washed off the burn with warm water and renewed daily. The burn is not cleaned before spraying, although it may be dusted with sulfa powders; nor is it bandaged afterward. The patient is also given the plasma transfusions and high protein diet common to other forms of burn therapy...
...made studies of and wrote papers about the glacial geology of the various parts of the United States and Canada, and was working on one devoted to Cape Cod at the time of his death. One of his favorite exhibits at the Museum was the relief model of "Kilauea...
...editors of the humor rag have made themselves famous by such pranks as the removal of the "sacred cod" from the House of Representatives in the State House at Boston, and the purloining of the Yale fence, which has served for countless years as a backdrop for the pictures of all Eli gridiron captains...
Your Aug. 17 issue contained a belated account of the discovery by my son, Ned, and his cousin of a "two-way short-wave station complete with hidden aerial" on Cape Cod. I assume that the basis for your account was my son's letter to me describing the incident which, at the request of OCD officials, had been published in a local newspaper: My letter to you of Aug. 18 raised the question as to the source of your information that this radio station "for months had sent messages to sea-roving Nazi submarines." Certainly no such statement...
...most of her corns disappeared; in two months they were all gone. This surprising cure was reported by Dr. John Vidalin Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. in Northwest Medicine. Dr. Straumfjord's specialty is studying the importance of vitamin A, which abounds in the livers of Pacific Coast sharks, cod livers, and carrots...