Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a stunner to Claude Wickard. He knew what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...
...Matrûh, the British base of operations in Egypt's Western Desert. So did Alexandria and To bruch and Haifa. The blow to home morale was heavy; the first airborne invasion of an island was not easy for islanders to for get. But the biggest shock was the expense of losing Crete...
...Despite bombings, sirens and frequent routings out of bed, the 450 inmates of the Lingfield Epileptic Colony at Lingfield, Surrey have remained "unperturbed." Many doctors think that epilepsy is brought on by fright, worry, or terrific shock. But Dr. Joseph Tylor Fox, head of the Lingfield colony, reported: "There was no general increase of [epileptic] attacks on days or nights of air activity, nor has any evidence been found of increased fits in individuals." This observation tends to confirm the theory that fits are caused by damage to the brain, not by psychological shock...
Regardless of how serious they are, Dr. Aldrich believes "there is absolutely no first-aid treatment for large burns." During the first 72 hours, patients are more liable to die from shock than from burn. According to Dr. Aldrich, they should not be smeared with oils, but should be kept warm, given large amounts of fluids, and sedatives to relieve pain...
When a patient recovers from shock, Dr. Aldrich treats him for the next hazard -death from streptococcic infection. Loose bits of skin are trimmed away, but he is not scrubbed. A surgeon sprays a mixed solution of three aniline dyes-crystal violet, brilliant green, and brownish neutral acriflavine directly on to his burned skin. As soon as the dye covers his exposed nerve ends, all pain stops...