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...Dominican Republic had it worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
Basis of the treatment is the discovery that the chief dangers to a burn victim are: 1) loss of protein from burned tissues, i.e., starvation; 2) infection, usually picked up when the burns are being dressed; 3) shock. The treatment casts aside not only elaborate ointments but the standard prewar practice of debriding (scraping away) the charred skin and flesh. Specialists now recognize that most preparations doctors used to smear on burns were either a hindrance or dangerous...
...Government grant, experimented on the basis of the later findings. Most of their patients got no morphine; by the time they reached the hospital they usually felt no pain. On arrival, they were promptly put between sterile sheets, given anti-tetanus injections and, if necessary, plasma transfusions for shock...
...Brown who, as an A.A.F. flight surgeon, supervised treatment of some 15,000 neurotic or psychotic Army flyers during the war. Now a civilian again, he has a staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge. All told the clinic has 38 rooms, and 28 more are to be added...
Within a minute, the air shock wave hit the Appalachian with the concussion of a 16-in. gun fired close at hand. The ship had already felt the underwater blast, like the push of a nearby depth charge...