Word: monafo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom from Pain. Recent burn therapy has been so unsatisfactory that Dr. Moyer and Dr. William Monafo were seeking some agent to act as a barrier against the invasion of burned skin by bacteria. Silver nitrate, they knew, would do the job, but in the 5% to 10% concentrations formerly used, it would also burn healthy skin. They wondered whether a weaker solution would work. At 1%, it worked but it still burned skin. Without much hope of success they switched to the greater dilution...
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