Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious to know whether or not the orders for such emergency treatment actually came from a physician. Journals of medicine as well as standard surgical texts specifically advise against such application of greasy materials to second or third degree burns, even in dire emergency. Aside from some easing of the pain, the only effect this treatment could have would be harmful. Physicians know that a burned area is not greatly different from any other wound, and as such, is very easily infected by impromptu therapy from sympathetic onlookers...
...Robert Buermann of the Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood, N. J. used tannic acid at the field until it ran out, then resorted to oil. At his hospital tannic acid treatment is standard...
...Robert Anderson Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's, Darlington, was the little clergyman's name. The story that he was very anxious for the press to believe was that of all the little clergymen in Britain who have chafed at their bishops' treatment of the Duke of Windsor, he alone thought of writing to Monts to offer his services to the Duke, whom he had never met. Explained Vicar Jardine's wife...
...Feller," for use "on candies and candy bars." In Cleveland last week, Pitcher Bob Feller, 18-year-old prodigy of the Cleveland Indians who has been out of action almost since the season's start with a sore right arm, reported for action after a week's treatment by a chiropractor in Milwaukee...
...first year was the hardest. Patient Brown tried to annoy the doctors as much as their elaborate, cheerful treatment annoyed him. But he enjoyed his ''diverting and interesting" companions. "General Foch" amused him especially. It was fun, at a safe distance, teasing the surly ones with such remarks as: "You big lazy bum, why don't you go home and go to work?" In time he noticed nothing particularly "goofy" about any of them. It was the intrusion of sane outsiders on Visitors' Day that brought back a depressing sense of something wrong...