Word: swabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stilwell's Part. But first Stilwell must swab out Japanese pockets of infection-including Myitkyina, around which, for more than 40 days, his troops have been closing a circle at house-to-house pace. In about seven months Stilwell had driven almost 200 miles from Ledo, had knocked out about 17,700 Japanese casualties. His Chinese, Americans, British, Burmese and Indians had stamped out the 18th Japanese Division, whose fame at home was built on the rape of Nanking, the capture of Shanghai and Singapore, victories in Malaya and Burma. His troops had also badly mauled three other...
After that effort, the men go above to make their compartments shipshape, swab the decks, and shower. Then down to breakfast, at which musters have been taken since the Medical Department got worried over the number of absentees...
...painful, sometimes fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...