Word: plastering
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...suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood in the bandage like stays in a corset), the wound is thoroughly trimmed of all germ-breeding dead tissues, soothed with vaseline gauze and sealed raw in a swiftly and easily wound-on cast of bandages soaked in plaster of Paris...
When Spanish wounded so treated began to hobble and be carried over into France as refugees, what was most noticeable was the terrific stench. This at first suggested to French surgeons that the plaster casts must be quickly ripped off and stinking human members amputated. The French soon learned, however, to let plastered Spanish wounded alone, observed that, while the odor for a time became almost unbearable, the end result was nearly always satisfactory. Last week the British Lancet said nothing about a heroic stench, said flatly that results of the Barcelona method have been so good in Flanders that...
...surged through the stuffy halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, chewing cigars and mopping steamy brows. The big building was cluttered with hundreds of little booths-papered with scientific charts, decorated with hearts & flowers, pickled fetuses, stuffed dogs, old bones, trays of purpled lungs and livers, plaster glands, transparent torsos, illuminated pictures of bathing beauties, bearded women, sissified men, monstrosities of all kinds. Shirt-sleeved barkers, with pointers in their hands and cigarets drooping from their lips, tried to entice passers-by to stop and view their wares...
...helpers, headed out of the apartment at the double quick. They were huddled in a hallway when several Nazi bombs whammed down upon adjoining buildings, exploded with a crash that blasted doors and windows out of Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White-lipped but determined, Archinard waited for quiet, then returned to his machine. Brushing aside bits of broken glass, he proceeded to bat out an eyewitness account of the bombing that added another feather to radio newscasting's well-feathered war bonnet. The German advance has closed one after...
...that Nurse O'Neil, whom she detests, is her mother. This discovery, the picture's climax, is effected with the help of a bang-up barrage which smashes to smithereens some valuable Republic sets of a French village, showers the cute and cowering nurses with dirt and plaster, but does not faze Elsie Janis...