Word: tannic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors washed her, gave her the standard textbook treatment: a coating of tannic acid solution to ease her pain, keep out harmful bacteria, seal in her body fluids. After a severe burn, blood escapes from the capillaries into tissue spaces, and circulation "dries up," stagnates. So the doctors followed their textbook schedule by feeding and injecting the baby with enormous quantities of water and fruit juices. For two days she was quiet and fairly comfortable; on the third day she swelled up, lost consciousness, went into convulsions, died...
...While these experimental studies were in progress," the doctors were called on to treat severe back and chest burns of a 15-year-old girl. They gently bathed her in soap and water, but gave her no tannic acid, permitted only occasional mouthfuls of water to moisten her throat, and placed her in an oxygen tent...
...moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...
Burns. Standard treatment for burns, whether caused by incendiary bombs, mustard gas or lewisite, is application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes...
...patient man who loves trees, eagerly showed reporters four luxuriant chestnut trees on the New Jersey estate of Success Coach Walter Boughton Pitkin. Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just...