Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first metatarsal, the small bone behind the great toe. Normally this bone carries two-sixths of the weight of the body. If it is short or wobbly, the second metatarsal has to take up the load. Weak ankles are usually caused by a loose-jointed metatarsal; so are heels worn down on one side. Real flat feet are rare, the result of long standing metatarsal trouble...
...best treatment seems to be simple cleanliness. Patients are examined in special plant rooms; attendants wear sterile gowns, rubber gloves; all goggles and masks worn by workers are now sterilized before being used again...
...halls of the British Embassy the presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles...
Other medical news received from Navy doctors in Honolulu last week: > More than 60% of the injuries were burns. Most of these were "flash" burns (instantaneous) on bare legs and arms. If the sailors had worn long pants and sleeves, said the doctors, they might not have been hurt. Three types of treatment were used: 1) dressings soaked in mineral oil and sulfa drugs; 2) bandages dipped in gun tubs filled with tannic acid; 3) tannic-acid jelly. (Plain sulfa powders were discontinued because they caked on wounds.) > Newly made morphine "syrettes," ampules filled with morphine and fitted with sterile...
...completely burned and he lost all he owned except what he had on. Up all night putting out other fires, he had to go to Oxford next morning to deliver a lecture with nothing but a cassock to hide the battered pair of flannel trousers ("Oxford bags") he had worn firefighting. Afterwards he went into an Oxford shop to buy a more respectable pair of pants. The proprietor looked at him disdainfully: "Don't you realize there is a war on?" "Yes," said Dr. Barry...