Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...millions of British cinemaddicts this explanation sufficed. Evidently some improper fluid had been spilled by accident into The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King. But cinemen were not satisfied. In any case the jubilee film must have been printed from cinema library footage. Even if chemicals ruined the entire new film, an extremely improbable occurrence, the library footage remains, can be printed off again. Cinemen therefore conjectured last week that the trouble could scarcely be chemical. Asked they: "Are old pictures of the King really so inspiring...
Protection against peritonitis and postoperative adhesions from the use of a preparation of amniotic fluid, frequently referred to as amniotic fluid concentrate, comes from its stimulating effect on the normal processes of defense and repair. It is not a germicide and does not of itself dissolve adhesions...
...amniotic fluid is collected at the slaughter house from heavy western beef after government inspection of each animal. The uteri of cows two to five months pregnant, only, are selected. At this early period the amniotic fluid is especially pure and potent. The product is further purified and concentrated by an elaborate chemical process in one of the country's leading pharmaceutical houses. The end product, highly purified, is now used to prevent peritonitis in all cases of abdominal surgery...
Again and again Dr. Johnson flushed the abdominal cavities of his surgical patients with fresh bovine fluid. In an astonishing number of cases peritonitis was prevented and mortality records were brought down to an enviable degree...
...Johnson's Boston colleague and good friend, Dr. Edward Lorraine Young Jr., then suggested that Dr. Johnson give him some concentrated amniotic fluid to try as a prophylactic. In risky bowel operations where the mortality rate is usually about 30% Dr. Young had the satisfaction of reducing it to about 2%. These Johnson-Young experiments went successfully forward to the point where the two doctors last week felt warranted in making this significant announcement to their fellow surgeons: Three ounces of the concentrate injected into the peritoneum four to six hours before an operation will, in a vast majority...