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...joints, and developed small red blotches on her skin and ulcers in her throat and mouth. Nurse Wine was flown to a larger mission hospital at Jos, in centra] Nigeria. There she died within 30 hours, but not until Nurse Charlotte Shaw had used her finger and a swab to cleanse the mouth ulcers. Nurse Shaw had nicked her finger earlier in the day while cutting roses. Although she had bandaged it and used an antiseptic, she fell ill soon after treating Nurse Wine. Her symptoms were as various as they were baffling. Dr. Jeanette Troup drew a blood specimen...
...generations the quick, routine swipe with an antiseptic swab has been the accepted procedure before every medical injection. But is it necessary, or even effective? Neither, says Dr. Thomas Charles Dann, medical officer of the University College of Swansea in Wales. The usual, perfunctory five-second swabbing of the skin is far too brief for any of the antiseptics used to sterilize the area. As proof that this "routine rub is rubbish," Dann reports in the Lancet that more than 5,000 injections have been given in the past six years at the Swansea medical center without the preshot cleansing...
...swab should not be discarded entirely. Injections into the spinal cord or joints, and for patients on high doses of cortisone-like drugs, should be performed under strictly sterile conditions. Then, Dann contends, sterilization can be ensured only if the swabbing lasts for at least two minutes...
...possibilities of color." To do this, he laid a 6-ft. square of canvas on the floor and walked around it until he lost track of its top and bottom. He decided that the "most neutral" place to start from was its center, and proceeded to pour, stain and swab paint in concentric circles outward. Noland played with half a dozen colors in such target paintings, devising hundreds of dashing combinations. He moved on to chevrons, then to diamond-shaped canvases. Since 1967, he has been painting majestically flowing, horizontally striped rectangles that enable him to orchestrate as many...
...Normally, Segal casts his models in sections, but for Ethel he wanted to try just two casts, the first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...