Word: salts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With phenomenally low water in the Mississippi, salt water from the Gulf of Mexico backed no miles up to New Orleans, where fishermen caught sea trout and pompano, and people's mouths puckered at the brackish water in city mains...
...burns of critical degree but not utterly hopeless." They found: 1) dogs which were given no fluids died in twelve hours; 2) dogs which received large quantities of water lived a little longer, but died, like the baby, in convulsions; 3) dogs which were given moderate amounts of salt and sugar solutions to maintain their "blood chemistry," and which received "repeated large transfusions of blood in addition . . . were able to survive the otherwise fatal shock." The doctors came to the conclusion that a stagnant circulation must be stimulated with extreme delicacy, that blood transfusions were absolutely necessary...
Over the first four days she was given six large blood transfusions (the last three of blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...
...Salt Lake City, Joseph Schoelling, riding on his bicycle, crashed into the rear of a parked car, looped up and over, landed right side up, astride his bicycle on the car roof...
...stiff, lustrous hostess coat from natural gas, coal oil, salt...