Word: tannic
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...Edward Clement Davidson of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit discovered that he could coagulate burned surfaces by soaking them with tannic acid. The tanned coating kept body moisture from escaping, germs from entering...
...Milwaukee last week Dr. Donald Breckinridge Wells of Hartford, Conn., told how deformities like Doris Johnson's might be prevented. Let severely burned or scalded people be plumped into a tub of tannic acid solution,* he advised, and be given quantities of liquids to drink. The drink balances the water lost from the system on account of the burning, while the astringent tannic acid relieves pain, toughens the body surface and loosens burned tissue. While the victim is in the bath, several attendants busily remove loosened, burned tissue and wash unharmed skin with soap and water. This procedure...
...Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...
...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...