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...Matrûh, the British base of operations in Egypt's Western Desert. So did Alexandria and To bruch and Haifa. The blow to home morale was heavy; the first airborne invasion of an island was not easy for islanders to for get. But the biggest shock was the expense of losing Crete...
...vitamin D it needs in one big dose at the beginning of each winter, and rickets can be conquered once & for all. That was the proposition Dr. Henry John Gerstenberger of Western Reserve presented to members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine substitute in the dark winter months...
Regardless of how serious they are, Dr. Aldrich believes "there is absolutely no first-aid treatment for large burns." During the first 72 hours, patients are more liable to die from shock than from burn. According to Dr. Aldrich, they should not be smeared with oils, but should be kept warm, given large amounts of fluids, and sedatives to relieve pain...
When a patient recovers from shock, Dr. Aldrich treats him for the next hazard -death from streptococcic infection. Loose bits of skin are trimmed away, but he is not scrubbed. A surgeon sprays a mixed solution of three aniline dyes-crystal violet, brilliant green, and brownish neutral acriflavine directly on to his burned skin. As soon as the dye covers his exposed nerve ends, all pain stops...
...best-dressed men in Europe have been bebowlered Britons. To them and their wives last week came a rude shock. In a surprise announcement the Government let it be known that there would henceforth be strict rationing of clothes...