Word: tannic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assault was successful. Five Republican generals (Couzens, Jones of Washington, Glenn, Robinson of Indiana, Thomas of Idaho), were made prisoners. The regular Republicans were driven back to the 1913 (Underwood Tariff) line in the gallic acid segment and were hustled out of their trenches (45 to 33) in the tannic acid sector...
Traumatic Surgery. Standardization of injury treatment, important for the automobile accident increase expected for 1929. Tannic acid to coagulate scalded or burned tissues and prevent its absorption into the body...
...police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...