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Since Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera gave up the ghost in 1910, New York's Metropolitan Opera has had no real competition. The only flies in its monopolistic ointment have been popular-priced hopefuls like the New York City Opera Co., which tried a short experimental season four years...
What is the best treatment for a burn? The Chinese swear by tea. U.S. doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Even though some had wounds covered with molasses, lard, talcum powder, bluing, the surgeons did not debride, merely washed the burns with soap & water. Wearing surgical masks and using operating-room sterility procedure (to avoid infection), they wrapped the burned areas in gauze bandages, with or without a mild ointment (Dr. Elman: "None is really required"). They left on the original dressing as long as possible, usually ten to 14 days. After bandaging, patients able to stand were urged to get up and walk around. The only drug: anti-infection sulfathiazole pills...
...tons), it kept up production of their basic components, such as chlorine. It also produced 35,000,000 gas masks for men, 39,000 for Army horses and mules, 1,400 for dogs. It turned out some 2,200,000 decontamination appliances, 162,000,000 tubes of anti-blister ointment...
...itch does not clear up by itself. Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...