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...wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution on wounds before enclosing them in plaster. Apparently, said the scientists, the lactose provides food for harmless bacteria in the wounds, prevents them from causing putrefaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stench and Guillotines | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., onetime Chief of Naval Intelligence and author of the authoritative Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahon, understands the Japanese people principally as sailors good and true. An old-line imperialist, he sees the Far Eastern issue in terms of the Open Door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Inscrutable Scrutinized | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...years of active service, Alfred Mahan never rose above Captain, became a Rear Admiral only when he retired. A contemptuous superior called him a "pen-and-ink sailor," and put caged canaries near his cabin to drown out the scratching of the Mahan pen. Today his biographer, Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., retired, and most Navy men agree that his pen was mightier than a flotilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Imperial Mahan | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Every one of the Freshman matches went to extra games. Playing in number one position, George B. Blake, coming from behind to defeat Dilworth, was outstanding for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor and Freshman Weekend Sports | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...tentative Freshman lineup for the Blue includes L. Dilworth, R. C. Clark, H. Schell, W. Wheelock, and J. Dickinson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SQUASH TEAM WILL MEET CHOATE, YALE | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

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