Word: gelatine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Desserts? In Pueblo, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Halstead complained that an old jape had reached Colorado: someone had carefully scrubbed their bathtub, then filled it with 30 gallons of cherry-flavored gelatin...
...group then developed a more realistic skull substitute. They made life-sized, head-shaped shells of brittle plastic and filled them with gelatin. They finally got an artificial human skull that reacted to shock almost exactly like a real one. Then they catapulted the models against solid objects resembling airplane parts that passengers' heads might hit in a crash...
...plate, when Hubble develops it, will not look like much: only a few faint smudges of silver granules on a film of gelatin. By itself, the first photograph may prove little, but there will be many others. Added together, they may tell man things about his universe that have puzzled him since he came here to live...
Besides stopping bleeding (by reacting with blood to form tiny clots inside the sponge), gelatin has two important surgical advantages over conventional gauze pads: 1) it helps wounds heal, 2) it can be left in the body, because it is absorbable.* Said Dr. Jenkins: the new material should make possible heart and cancer operations hitherto all but ruled out because of the great loss of blood...
Another prediction: that gelatin sponges would become standard equipment in family medicine chests as first-aid dressings for wounds and nosebleed...