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...area to be cut was prepared for several days by "scrubbing and wrapping in bichloride solution or carbolic-soaked towels." Later on, the style was to scrub the patient off & on all day with green soap, then soak his skin the evening before the operation with a poultice of the soap. Finally, in the middle of the night, when he might have rested for the ordeal, he was "entertained" by being scrubbed, and the site of the operation was bathed in alcohol and dressed with a wet, sticky poultice to be kept on until the operation. Internal cleanliness was achieved...
...learned to brush their teeth, wash their faces, shave and rinse out socks in two inches of water in a mess kit. The mention of British service biscuits brought wry smiles to their faces. Said one hardy biscuit eater: "You could dunk them in water and they'd soak it up all right. Then they'd be just as hard as ever...
...jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown has labor been persuaded to process it, for jute must soak in stagnant water, must be hand-worked by natives who wade waist-deep in the stinking mess...
...worse was to come. Back in Manhattan, Colonel Wedgwood was told what Burt Wheeler had said. The peppery old Colonel exploded. Said he: "Tell Wheeler to go soak his head. Who is he, anyway? He's from Montana, I understand, but what nationality was he originally?" In calmer tones the Colonel added: "We have had years and years of these wretched appeasers like Wheeler in England, doing nothing and hoping for the best. . . . At the very kindest, I say such people are misled...
...newspaper man Kidder had little money; his business was sick from the adverse publicity, and fighting the FTC charges looked like a long and expensive process. But he was sure the FTC was wrong. When it asked him to sign a stipulation admitting that Koatsal did not soak into metal but was held on by "capillary attraction" (a scientific impossibility), he became surer than ever...