Word: earwax
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Captain G. W. Palmer, British Army doctor who reported the cases in the British Medical Journal, washed out the earwax in two cases and infection resulted. He let nine alone for three weeks. Then he washed their ears too, found three broken but uninfected eardrums, six unharmed eardrums. He concluded that earwax is a pretty good protection against blast...