Word: moyer
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With impressive statistics to back up his claims, Dr. Carl A. Moyer, head surgery professor at St. Louis' Washington University and surgeon-in-chief of the city's famed Barnes Hospital, reported to the New York Academy of Medicine on the near-magical healing qualities of silver nitrate. Ironically, the inexpensive, familiar chemical was many years ago discredited as a proper treatment for burns...
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...
Wash Off the Black. The treatment, Dr. Moyer admitted, is "an exceedingly primitive scientific solution" to the burn problem, but it is "unbelievably successful." It also produces some bizarre effects. All the dressings, which have to be kept soaked in the solution and changed daily, turn the blackish color of tarnished silver. So do doctors' and nurses' gowns and the equipment in the patients' rooms. New skin also appears black at first, but when it is strong enough to be washed, it appears a normal, healthy pink...
...Moyer issued one warning. Because the solution leaches out some of the patient's body chemicals, the treatment must be accompanied by checks on the microchemistry of his blood salts so that any imbalance can be quickly corrected. How well the treatment works under these conditions is shown by the fact that Barnes has lost only one of the last 30 burn patients admitted since last April whose therapy began with the silver nitrate. In the month since Dr. Moyer made his report, other hospitals have begun using his treatment and with similar promising results...
...Walter Wilson Jenkins, giving his rarely used middle name. He gave his address, birth date and birthplace correctly, but listed his occupation as "clerk." Under questioning by Lieut. Louis A. Fochett, he admitted that he was indeed the President's aide. Fochett immediately telephoned Inspector Scott E. Moyer, chief of the morals division, for guidance. Moyer gave a two-word order: "Book...