Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early syphilis which used continuous, slow-drip injections of an arsenic compound. Experience has shown, said Dr. Moore, that while the five-day process is "excellent" for treating the syphilitic infection, it brings "an enormous increase in the danger to the patient." A number of patients so treated developed skin poisonings, neuritis, encephalitis. One out of every 300 died, a rate more than four times higher than that in standard treatment...
...Even Protestant officers . . . openly . . . wished they could have none but Catholic chaplains. It is patent that one who is out to save souls will accept any risk in the fighting line, whereas there was not much point in a chaplain who was a superior sort of entertainer putting his skin in danger." (U.S. chaplain mortality in World War I: one out of every 96 Protestants, one out of every 118 Catholics...
...Last week Drs. Charles Henry Rammelkamp Jr. and Chester Scott Keefer of the Boston University School of Medicine reported a hopeful experiment with gramicidin. Instead of injecting it into the blood stream they trickled a few drops of gramicidin right on the wounds of several patients with ulcers and skin diseases. One patient who had a leg ulcer for 15 years was cured in three weeks. The others recovered even more rapidly. But the doctors made it clear that the dangers of gramicidin have to be tested more completely. It is still available only to research workers, is made only...
...vitamin C is given to patients after operation and during convalescence, said Dr. Marshall K. Bartlett of Harvard, wound healing is several times faster, the tensile strength of new skin much greater. According to Drs. John Berry Hartzell and William E. Stone of Detroit's Wayne University, the vitamin draws calcium to injured tissues, helps weave cells tightly together...
Correspondent Belden, fresh from the central front, last week, verified Chinese claims that the Japanese used gas in the battle of Ichang four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 20). The Japanese had denied it. Jack Belden had seen soldiers suffering from gas blisters as large as tennis balls, whose skin was turning black...