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...will be a battle of two shrewd coaches this afternoon, and McLaughry has any number of tricks up his sleeve every year. His backs are fast, but the line is the fly in the Dartmouth ointment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Team Works Out at Stadium; Practice Stresses Passing, Kicking | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

...Biodyne" ointment to 100 patients in the burn clinic of Mercy Hospital, Dr. Walsh found that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Burn Cure | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Unlike most chemical bactericides, the new ointment sterilized wounds without further destroying or devitalizing the injured tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Burn Cure | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...filled his boot. After eight months of hospitalization and every type of conventional treatment from skin-grafting to sulfa drugs, his leg was still unhealed and infected, and he had a high fever. Several doctors decided that amputation was inevitable. Dr. Walsh took over and treated him with "Biodyne" ointment. In four months, the charred leg was good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Burn Cure | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...healing substances in them. The scientists now extract the biodynes from 1) fish-liver oils and 2) heated yeast cells. The extracts are mixed with a petrolatum and lanolin base, sell for $3 a pound. Dr. Sperti said last week he could produce 1,000 pounds of "Biodyne" ointment a day if he had a priority for fish oils. The Chicago Fire Department has already adopted the new ointment, carries five pounds of it in all life-saving trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Burn Cure | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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