Word: ofeigsson
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...treated almost 200 cases of burns the same way. Medical texts ignore the cold-water treatment for burns, but Dr. Shulman found that it was a remedy in frontier America, and it is the traditional treatment in Iceland. Now, in Postgraduate Medicine, Reykjavik's Dr. Ofeigur J. Ofeigsson makes firm recommendations for first aid in burns...
...case cited by Dr. Ofeigsson is that of a woman whose whole arm was scalded when she was a child of two. A kinswoman plunged the child's arm into a bucket of cold water, but only up to the elbow. Her hand and forearm healed well and are almost unscarred, whereas the unimmersed upper arm is a mass of scar tissue. Dr. Ofeigsson's rules for first aid in burns covering less than 20% of the body's area...
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