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...under two), Dr. Alexander estimates the severity of the infection by measuring the sugar and chloride in the patient's spinal fluid. If the level is low, the infection is severe. Treatment begins with an injection of sulfadiazine and a continuous slow drip of salt solution into a vein. After the drip has gone on for about four hours, a measured amount of the special rabbit serum is put into the reservoir of weak salt solution. The amount used depends on the amount of infection. All the serum is given in two hours...
...message which reached the U.S. last week, this independent member of the potent Soong family (sisters, Mmes. Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung; brothers, T. V. and T. L.) spoke in her sharpest vein. Said...
...Colonel Grinker says that this treatment can be used only at base hospitals or psychiatric station hospitals. But many conscientious, front-line psychiatrists use some of the uncovering techniques. For this treatment, a soldier is given food, rest and some drug (e.g., sodium pentothal by vein) to loosen his tongue. Beside him in a darkened room the psychiatrist persuades him to describe the horrors he has endured, relive the episodes that hurt his inner being...
...mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know. She had known Lily's mother in jail. (More or less by chance, Lily's mother - good, but hot-tempered - had thrown a knife at a man, severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well...
...Captain Maximillian Christian Kern and the other Navy doctors who report the case in the Naval Medical Bulletin: "Burn patients die not of their burns, but of shock, toxemia or sepsis." The burned sailor suffered all three, one after the other. Blood and plasma transfusions, salt solution by vein, sedatives and a sound pair of kidneys pulled him through...