Word: wetness
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...bearded hills were heavy with wet and the rain and sleet gathered great churning white heads and came roaring down. Swollen rivers rose first in the Pittsburgh industrial regions, then in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama...
...landing boats, they took off through the wild surf. Private Taylor's major had advised him to have a greeting ready for the Liberians, so he had prepared a statement which he recited to himself as they rocked and roared ashore. Wet and bedraggled, he leaped out on a desolate beach on the edge of the bush, marched up to the only Liberians in sight. They were half a dozen coal-black native boatmen who had come to help the U.S. troops unload. Said Private Taylor: "Liberians! We are here to join hands and fight together until this world...
...soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap. Finally, in the middle of the night, when he might have rested for the ordeal, he was "entertained" by being scrubbed, and the site of the operation was bathed in alcohol and dressed with a wet, sticky poultice to be kept on until the operation. Internal cleanliness was achieved by purging and preoperative starvation-which had the unfortunate effect of producing painful amounts of gas in the intestinal tract...
When Lister's ideas of cleanliness came into vogue, style was to keep everything wet with carbolic. Instrument tables were covered in towels wet with the acid, sponges were kept in it, the room was sprayed with carbolic acid until foggy. In those days catgut came in a five-foot coil to be soaked and sterilized by the doctors and "horsehair was obtained by going out to the ambulance stable and pulling out a handful from the tail of one of the horses...
...beyond I personally got more than 100 leech bites-I counted them carefully-in spite of heavy army boots and gaiters, and in spite of constantly picking the vile creatures off my legs, arms and neck! One night we spent in a little shack which was so dirty and wet and crowded that we hardly slept at all. The sandflies were absolutely appalling. The next night we came rather unexpectedly to a clean, well-ordered Chinese camp. Here was a Chinese colonel, an interpreter who spoke Chinese, English, Urdu, Hindu, Bengali, Nepali and Assamese! and four Chinese medical officers. They...