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Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
...Alabama's eight districts, the G.O.P. put up candidates in six, won five. The victors: W. Jack ("Thank God for Goldwater") Edwards, William L. Dickinson, Glenn Andrews, John H. Buchanan, and James D. Martin, who in 1962 had come with-in an ace of upsetting U.S. Senator Lister Hill. All are against civil rights laws. Elsewhere, the Democratic domi nance of the South was undiminished. Florida's congressional lineup was unchanged: ten Democrats, two Republicans. So were North Carolina's and Virginia's, with nine Democrats and two Republicans each. Though their electoral votes went...
Harry Byrd was absent. So were Senators Dick Russell and Herman Talmadge, Russell Long and Allen Ellen-der, John Stennis and Jim Eastland, John Sparkman and Lister Hill. A full third of the South's Democratic Governors also stayed away from Atlantic City...
...ROBERT W. LISTER Lawton, Okla...
Some pioneering surgeons are already putting patients into similar plastic bags and performing major operations through glove ports. It should not be long before many patients can have a truly sterile operation, fulfilling Joseph Lister's dream of aseptic surgery, and then be moved into the sterile isolator for recovery-something that not even Lister dared to hope...