Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets a deep flesh cut from a jagged instrument, the doctor usually washes out the wound with soap & water, cuts away dead tissue, and stitches up the wound. He may put a mild antiseptic on the surrounding skin. He would never think of cauterizing such a wound with fuming nitric acid and then leaving it open. But if the patient in such a case is the victim of a dogbite, he is all too likely to be subjected to painful cautery, and perhaps scarred for life...
...general surgeon in Fresno, Calif., saw a lot of this sort of thing as a resident physician in big New Orleans and Los Angeles hospitals, and it infuriated him. In Postgraduate Medicine, he tells why: there is no need to treat a dogbite differently from any other flesh wound; this has long been known to medical science, but too many doctors are still using oldfashioned, discredited methods...
...only thing that makes a dogbite (or the bites of other animals*) different from an ordinary wound, says Dr. Vinnard, is the possible presence of rabies virus. It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap & water than by nitric acid or any other of the cauterizing agents. As for leaving the wound open, this increases the chance of disfigurement...
...always guessed so cunningly when she was on the verge of flight-and gave her a raise in salary? Or was it, rather, that under Willy's brutal, profiteering tutelage young Colette learned how to write? Explained Colette years later: "Perhaps even a mouse finds time, between one wound and the next, to appreciate the softness...
Crew captain Louis McCagg wound up the fall rowing season with a bang yesterday by stroking his boat to victory in the climax inter-squad race. McCagg's boat, which the betting fraternity had given little chance in the pre-race odds, won easily in 4:01 over the three-quarter mile and three length course...