Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first 15 patients to get the new treatment all had deep (third-degree) burns over more than 25% of their bodies. Doctors covered the burns with gauze dressings soaked in the dilute silver nitrate. Three of these patients were too ill to be saved. But in the other twelve, both surface infection and systemic infection (blood poisoning)-major causes of death in burns-were for all practical purposes eliminated. Equally important from the doctors' viewpoint, the patients lost only a negligible amount of body fluids or weight and did not need special diet supplements or plasma...
...Black. The treatment, Dr. Moyer admitted, is "an exceedingly primitive scientific solution" to the burn problem, but it is "unbelievably successful." It also produces some bizarre effects. All the dressings, which have to be kept soaked in the solution and changed daily, turn the blackish color of tarnished silver. So do doctors' and nurses' gowns and the equipment in the patients' rooms. New skin also appears black at first, but when it is strong enough to be washed, it appears a normal, healthy pink...
...microchemistry of his blood salts so that any imbalance can be quickly corrected. How well the treatment works under these conditions is shown by the fact that Barnes has lost only one of the last 30 burn patients admitted since last April whose therapy began with the silver nitrate. In the month since Dr. Moyer made his report, other hospitals have begun using his treatment and with similar promising results...
...Like his native city, which lies on the fringes of the Western world, his work flirts with the Far East, draws from such predecessors as Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt as well as the tendrilous enticements of Jugendstil or art nouveau. He mingles oils and tempera with gold and silver foil, beeswax, and bits of peat moss and sand to make his almost bitter, labyrinthine pastries...
Moreau stayed in The Dazzling Hour for two years, then moved on to other shows-Cocteau's La Machine Infernale (in which she appeared with her hair dusted with silver powder, her hands in clawed gloves, and her body covered with a flesh-colored net) and, for two years, Shaw's Pygmalion. She had already begun taking parts in small films, shooting all day, then racing to the theater for the show at night. The word was that Moreau was completely unphotogenic-the nose and ears too small, the mouth too thick, the body nothing special...