Word: heale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard treatment is to cut out the whole sac, leaving a wound so large that it must be kept partly open to heal gradually. A serviceman needs 60 to 90 days healing time before he can go back on duty. In 1940 the Navy found that the cysts were responsible for more hospitalization than hernia or syphilis. In last week's Southern Medical Journal, Dr. Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected...
...surgeons limited themselves to the infected, jeep-riding cases, vied in thinking up ways to cut healing time. One method, the closed technique: stitch the wound up tight to make the edges heal directly together. Dr. Buie does not approve of the closed technique, gives statistics to show that infected cysts recur in about a quarter of the people so treated...
Doctors at the New Orleans Charity Hospital had found that wounds stitched together with "ordinary cotton thread" were less likely to become infected than those sutured with catgut or silk. Another advantage: cotton is not absorbed and will hold when a wound takes a long time to heal-catgut may disappear in a little over a week, especially if a wound is infected. Finally, Dr. Ochsner noted that at Charity Hospital the average cost of catgut per patient is $1.19, as against 93? for silk and only 1¼? for cotton...
...Controlled experiments on wounded soldiers show that, with ACS treatment, a wound which would ordinarily take as long as six months to heal now takes only a month...
Main factors: WPB had learned about bottlenecks the hard way, from earlier struggles with plants and materials. WPB's Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson personally intervened in the manpower mess, personally toured some of the bad spots, personally supervised emergency measures to heal them...