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...which a wax film is sprayed from a flit gun on damaged tissues, was described last week by Lieut. Commander Ralph Cooper Pendleton of the Navy Medical Corps. The new treatment was used with success on 97 sailors who were badly burned at Pearl Harbor and removed to Mare Island Naval Hospital (on San Francisco Bay). Now it is fast being adopted by more & more surgeons aboard the Navy's ships...
...enclosed areas where they are exposed to bomb flashes and hot oil. Of Naval casualties at Pearl Harbor, half were burn cases, whereas at nearby airfields burns accounted for only 2% or 3% of casualties. Dr. Pendleton does not claim the wax treatment is perfect, but he and his Mare Island colleagues think it is a big improvement...
...Mass treatment of the wounded is greatly expedited. The first day the wax was used at Mare Island, an orderly treated Dr. Pendleton's group of patients in an hour and a half, while in the next ward five nurses-using other methods-took four hours to fix the dressings on a like number of patients...
...Because bandages are eliminated, wounds can be inspected at any time. In several Mare Island cases bullet and shrapnel wounds were discovered in burned areas which would have been overlooked had they been bandaged. ^ Wax treatment does not produce the leathery crust which forms on burns treated with tannic acid and dyes. These crusts often trap purulent materials and have to be removed painfully...
Ruddy-faced, greying, intense Ralph Pendleton, 47, had been practicing medicine in Salt Lake City and working on his wax treatment for 20 years when he was ordered to Mare Island last December. "I'm sort of a hoarder," he says. "I had laid in a supply of flit guns. When I started for Mare Island, I threw them in the back of the car figuring they might come in handy." They did-by chance he was assigned to a burn ward, told to do anything he thought would help the suffering sailors...