Word: elman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Elman, one of the leading U.S. authorities on burns, declared the best way to treat a victim is simply...
...treatment brings together what has been learned from such disasters as Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and from wartime experience with men burned aboard ships and planes. It was described in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics by Dr. Robert Elman, husky, 49-year-old surgery professor in Washington University's Medical School, St. Louis...
...Proof. At Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis (a city institution for Negroes), Dr. Elman's group, supported by a Government grant, experimented on the basis of the later findings. Most of their patients got no morphine; by the time they reached the hospital they usually felt no pain. On arrival, they were promptly put between sterile sheets, given anti-tetanus injections and, if necessary, plasma transfusions for shock...
...some had wounds covered with molasses, lard, talcum powder, bluing, the surgeons did not debride, merely washed the burns with soap & water. Wearing surgical masks and using operating-room sterility procedure (to avoid infection), they wrapped the burned areas in gauze bandages, with or without a mild ointment (Dr. Elman: "None is really required"). They left on the original dressing as long as possible, usually ten to 14 days. After bandaging, patients able to stand were urged to get up and walk around. The only drug: anti-infection sulfathiazole pills...
...Elman swears he can document the history of everything he sells...