Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muenter, exposed, tried to kill himself by cutting an artery with a metal strip ripped from an eraser cap. When this failed, he climbed a latticework of prison bars and dived head first to the concrete floor, dashing his skull to pieces
...Cloward used a small suction tube to remove bits of debris, then trimmed off all injured tissue with a knife. If the pieces of metal were close to the surface, they were removed; if small and deeply embedded, they were allowed to remain in the brain, for fear of increasing damage by operation. When the brain was clean, the wound was filled with sulfanilamide powder, and the brain envelope and scalp stitched tight...
Although most of the soldiers recovered without trouble, some may suffer aftereffects. Those with bits of metal left in their brains are liable to develop epilepsy about six months after injury. As a precaution, all victims of brain wounds were given a year's supply of. drugs to prevent fits...
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...
...Silver consumption last year soared 95% over 1940, to 80,000,000 ounces. Chief new uses: as solder and as a substitute for copper. Silver is one metal for which no shortage is in view: the U.S. Treasury has well over 1,000,000,000 ounces of bullion...