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...Chinese Fou Foong Flour Mill. Since it is within 20 yards of the Sino-Japanese battle sector, just across Soochow Creek, the mill hands demanded a month's salary in advance for working in such dangerous quarters, subsided after 25 strikers were admitted to hospitals "suffering from scalp wounds and tear...
...Winterset and High Tor, quickly soothed managerial feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...Neenah, Wis., several stitches were required to close Thomas Henry's scalp after his 18-month-old son Donald had knocked him out with a meat hammer...
Wounds & Complications. Wound should be thoroughly, but gently, cleaned was Dr. Babcock's primary injunction Wounds of the scalp, face or neck should be freely flushed with antiseptics (half-strength tincture of iodine is good), grease removed with turpentine or ether, dirt-begrimed tissue cut away, bleeding stopped. Bandages may be applied for 24 hours to limit oozes. After that "no dressing is necessary. . . . Dressings about the openings of the mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even...
...high heat. But whether the heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...