Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mail Must Go Through. In Miami, police jailed Postman Joseph Gagen even after he explained that he was delivering his mail in his bare skin because he had fallen off his bicycle into an anthill and had to abandon his clothes in order to abandon the ants...
...Lost an able old White House lieutenant when dour, crafty Charles Michelson, who had taken the skin off scores of Republicans in ten years of speech-ghosting and column writing, decided to retire (at 74) as Democratic publicist...
...area to be cut was prepared for several days by "scrubbing and wrapping in bichloride solution or carbolic-soaked towels." Later on, the style was to scrub the patient off & on all day with green soap, then soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap. Finally, in the middle of the night, when he might have rested for the ordeal, he was "entertained" by being scrubbed, and the site of the operation was bathed in alcohol and dressed with a wet, sticky poultice to be kept on until the operation. Internal cleanliness was achieved...
...Erdmann gives credit for the invention of rubber gloves to the late Dr. W. S. Halsted of Johns Hopkins, who thought them up to protect the hands of a pretty nurse he later married. The hand-washing then in vogue took the skin off doctors and nurses alike. Bichloride and carbonate of soda were used. "There was no question of the liberation of chlorine, nor was there any question of destruction of hands and laundry nor of the corrosion of plumbing." Surgeons worked in cotton gloves...
...Tincture of iodine has been replaced by an alcoholic solution of complex phenols that penetrate deeply into the skin but that do not corrode metal or stain linen...