Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeply buried for so long and subjected to so much heat and pressure that all organic traces they once contained have been turned to shapeless specks of carbon. One notable exception is a hard, black, ancient rock found near Gunflint Lake in western Ontario, which somehow escaped this rough treatment. In the magazine Science, Paleontologist Elso S. Barg-hoorn-of Harvard and the late Geologist Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin describe the remains of microscopic organisms that lived in that "Gunflint chert" - an impure silica -about 2 billion years ago, 1,800 million years before the earliest...
...reporters of the newspapers, literally swamp the person being interviewed. Hand-carried microphones are thrust into his face from all directions; he is often half-blinded by the television lights; questions are shouted at him simultaneously from two or three reporters. All too often everybody gets the same treatment-be he a high-ranking Government official, a visiting foreign dignitary, an athlete, a hardened criminal, a juvenile delinquent or a Christine Keeler...
...first 15 patients to get the new treatment all had deep (third-degree) burns over more than 25% of their bodies. Doctors covered the burns with gauze dressings soaked in the dilute silver nitrate. Three of these patients were too ill to be saved. But in the other twelve, both surface infection and systemic infection (blood poisoning)-major causes of death in burns-were for all practical purposes eliminated. Equally important from the doctors' viewpoint, the patients lost only a negligible amount of body fluids or weight and did not need special diet supplements or plasma...
Wash Off the Black. The treatment, Dr. Moyer admitted, is "an exceedingly primitive scientific solution" to the burn problem, but it is "unbelievably successful." It also produces some bizarre effects. All the dressings, which have to be kept soaked in the solution and changed daily, turn the blackish color of tarnished silver. So do doctors' and nurses' gowns and the equipment in the patients' rooms. New skin also appears black at first, but when it is strong enough to be washed, it appears a normal, healthy pink...
...Moyer issued one warning. Because the solution leaches out some of the patient's body chemicals, the treatment must be accompanied by checks on the microchemistry of his blood salts so that any imbalance can be quickly corrected. How well the treatment works under these conditions is shown by the fact that Barnes has lost only one of the last 30 burn patients admitted since last April whose therapy began with the silver nitrate. In the month since Dr. Moyer made his report, other hospitals have begun using his treatment and with similar promising results...