Word: woundings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcely 60 years since hospitals were like charnel houses. Every other patient then carried into a hospital for surgical treatment, was carried out dead of blood poisoning, his wound a stinking fester. Joseph Lister, a young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons...
...York, the modern Babylon, at this time of year holds out a welcoming hand to such students as have survived the midyear examinations, which by a general consensus of opinion have been harder than ever before. Minds which have been wound up like a spring for the semi-annual ordeal feel that they are entitled to the lubrication of a week-end trip. Timetables of trains and steamers and criticisms of New York plays are much in demand...
Senator Borah oi Idaho, of course, orated before crowded galleries ; suggested that the U. S. keep the marines in Nicaragua only long enough to supervise an election, which President Diaz should authorize, to elect a new President. Mr. Borah wound up with stirring generalizations: "Inaugurate a campaign of peace . . . get in touch with the masses...
Rabies is a disease which attacks the nerves and brain of practically all mammals and fowl. A virus is present in the saliva of the infected beast. When the mad animal bites another animal or a human, the saliva carrying the virus enters the wound. It often happens that a bite through clothing is not infectious for the simple reason that the mad dog's saliva is wiped off his teeth as they bite; through the clothing. The virus entering the flesh works its way to a nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating...
...Upchurch, Cordelia's impecunious niece, aged 23. Annabel had no moral sense but a heart. The heart had been cracked by her first lover. She had winged eyebrows, cherubic curves and, like the Blonde that Gentlemen Preferred, she loved presents. So they were married and a romantic comedy was wound up when she ran off with the next passing youth and Gamaliel caught a chill running after...