Word: heale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...severe ulcers, said Dr. Winkelstein, must stay in bed for at least three weeks, are given no food, only constant drip treatment of three quarts of milk daily. Those who cannot tolerate milk are given a mild solution of aluminum hydroxide or phosphate gel. Once the ulcers start to heal, patients can have three good-sized bland meals a day, must use the drip for an hour after each meal, continue it until an hour before the next. They must keep the drip tube in their stomachs all night for many months...
...Frank Scozzari Adamo. He cleans wounds with hydrogen peroxide, which liberates oxygen, kills gas-forming bacteria, unable to live in air. Then he opens the wounds wide, slitting the muscles longitudinally and exposing a large area to the air, so that the gas germs cannot breed. The slit muscles heal easily. By this "conservative surgery" Surgeon Adamo claims to have saved a large number of arms and legs...
...Germans knew this, they knew that Russia was not yet beaten. They realized too that this was the first campaign over which the German Army had taken so long that wounds could heal, men return to the lines, and be wounded again...
...Nobody completely understands why old bones are slow to heal...
...prove no cure-all for a disease that is essentially incurable; but it may heal up some of the chronic grievances aggravated by indiscriminately seating men with their classes. Under the new plan, only the Freshmen--retaining their traditional sector in the midfield track-seats--will remain subject to the inelastic rules of the old class-seniority system...