Word: heale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pins remain embedded in the leg until the bones have united-usually eight to 16 weeks-but they have been left in place as long as 30 weeks without ill effects. After the pins are plucked out, the holes heal in about a week...
Exactly how the new substance works is not known. Theory is that, when some cells are injured or destroyed, the injured cells produce hormones which stimulate cellular multiplication so that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract...
...same operation is repeated on the other side of the arm. After the canals heal, an ivory peg is inserted in each one, and the patient practices moving these pegs with the stump muscles. Later on, a special artificial arm, made of many interacting levers and joints enclosed in leather, is fitted to the ivory pegs...
Good Health. Despite natural hardships, American troops in New Guinea are generally in good health. Scratches don't heal easily as they do in better climates, sometimes linger as little sores for weeks, then turn into ulcers. The Medical Corps thanks its stars for sulfanilamide powder...
...stream, wash it out, and Emily would re-sterilize it for use that night. I got four scratches, two on each foot, dropping boxes on myself while moving and then getting streptococcus sloughs from infected patients' blood and pus dropping onto my feet, and they took forever to heal. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have to have a dressing on my right foot for three months...