Word: hydrosulphosol
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...rubber factory) after they learned that her right eye could only distinguish between light & dark, and her left could make out only elephantine objects. In July of last year, Mrs. Brown read about Dr. Archie Edward Cruthirds of Phoenix, who had got good results in eye burns with Hydrosulphosol (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). Two days later, Mrs. Brown and Linda were in Phoenix...
...Cruthirds (rhymes with two-thirds) looked into Linda's hazel eyes and saw severe scarring of the corneas. But he thought there was hope, at least for the left eye, and he gave her eyedrops and capsules of calsulfhydryl (new name for Hydrosulphosol now that calcium has been added). The treatment is slow, and the Browns took no chances: they got Linda into a school for the blind at Berkeley, where she began to learn Braille...
...badly sunburned researcher, Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh (no kin), remembered the soothing effects of natural sulfur waters, tried Hydrosulphosol, a drug made of powdered sulfur and water, as a substitute. So pleased was he that he started experiments on real burns...
...Hydrosulphosol, an -SH (sulfydryl) solution,* reported Dr. Mellon in Industrial Medicine last fortnight, was tried on 150 burn cases, moderate and severe, by Drs. Archie Edward Cruthirds of Phoenix, Ariz, and Wilmot Frank Pierce of Los Angeles. The burns were caused by steam, hot metal, hot oil, lime, gasoline. Patients were sprayed with mixtures of Hydrosulphosol and water every 20 or 30 minutes until a tough "eschar," or "scab" was built up. The eschar is flexible, leaves room for motion, reduces scars to a minimum. Hydrosulphosol, said Dr. Mellon, not only relieves pain, but prevents infection, great hazard in burn...
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