Word: powders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...million base took some building. Going ashore, the landing parties got stuck in volcanic beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
...important matter was the mysterious death-by-gunshot of Siam's young King Ananda (TIME, June 17). Siamese officialdom has insisted that the death was purely accidental. Police Chief Phra Ram Indra even shot a pig before the whole Parliament to prove that the absence of powder burns on Ananda's face meant nothing...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...
...dogs' fleas, ticks, lice: Dust with a 10% DDT powder-but don't use it on cats, because they lick off the dust. DDT solutions are dangerous to animals...