Word: sear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week for his Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough into which the scorched leather soles of his shoes were thrust...
...operating on the gall bladder and the bowels with no risk of peritonitis is Dr. Lester Ray Whitaker of Boston. Last week Dr. Whitaker was in Manhattan telling the Academy of Physical Medicine of his latest surgical trick. For both operations he uses hot electric knives which sever, sear and sterilize...
Baltimore, Oct. 17--The jelly-like content of the leaves of the tropical plant "aloe vera" has been used successfully in curing severe burns without leaving a sear, it was announced here today...
...ordinary tablet contains 7.5 grains of bichloride of mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
...removed triangle of tissue could be fitted back into the defect as accurately as if it were a matrix." What ailed Albino P. P. is any pathologist's opinion. First, tentative diagnosis was cancer. Drs. Fischel & Jorstad believe that P. P.'s lump was one vast, complicated sear, result of the sore on his neck...