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Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
...components of smoke that paralyze the cilia, and are therefore important in bronchitis and related diseases, are largely carbolic and other acids. A proportion of these (up to 90% in the case of phenol) can be removed by cellulose acetate filters. Other cilia-damaging components, such as acetaldehyde and acrolein, are cut down by an activated charcoal filter, especially if the charcoal is compressed. A still better way, said Wynder and Hoffmann, is to filter the smoke through water and then through compressed charcoal, but so far this is not practicable -except, conceivably, in homes with filter-tipped hookahs...
Ever since Lord Lister rigged up an apparatus to squirt a curtain spray of phenol around his operating table, surgeons have worried about bacteria flying through the air and into a patient's wound. Trouble is, there has been next to no information about how many germs, of what kinds, are in the operating room's air, or-more importantly-about where the bugs come from...
...operator from Columbus testified: "She put some liquid on my face, and it was just like liquid fire." Though no one testified to actual injury from Cora's treatment, doctors said in court that since it peels off the top layer of skin by a slow burn, the phenol formula would definitely do damage; it might also injure the kidneys...
...been a long time catching up with Cora. And just such delays have probably encouraged other phenol-formula peddlers to grab for a fast buck elsewhere. An establishment in Westport, Conn. (TIME, Sept. 15, 1961), was shut down only last year. But Federal Judge Roger Foley did his best to supply a proper deterrent; he sentenced Cora Galenti to five years in prison, plus five years on probation during which she must not teach or practice rejuvenation...