Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burn their homes. Over 4,000 had gone to jail for refusing either to serve in the armed forces or to be classified as conscientious objectors; Witnesses claimed they were all ministers of the gospel. But the Witnesses had thrived and multiplied a bit on a diet of rough treatment...
What is the best treatment for a burn? The Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
...treatment brings together what has been learned from such disasters as Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and from wartime experience with men burned aboard ships and planes. It was described in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics by Dr. Robert Elman, husky, 49-year-old surgery professor in Washington University's Medical School, St. Louis...
World War II veterans, however, got more than indulgent treatment. Congress passed out: additional millions under the G.I. Bill of Rights; $2.6 billion in terminal pay; $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees-after a group of amputees marched into the House gallery and let their metal braces fall to the floor with a soul-withering clank. No one denied the people's debt to the veterans but many wondered whether Congress' treatment of them was always judicious...
Sometimes after an unfortunate guest has fallen into a fit of hysterics as a result of such rough treatment, The Collector may recant a bit and satisfy himself with mere lectures on his favorite subject. He has very definite theories on the care and reclaiming of antique discs including a process of re-shellacking which probably exceeds the plans for assembling the atomic bomb in intricacy. This study even goes into such details as the difference in the spacing of numbers on Victor chain labels of the 1931 period and in his eyes a record of this vintage which...