Monday, February 22, 2010

History of burn treatment

As I imagined tannic acid being used to treat burns, I was registering in my mind that tan is helpful as an info and then I had to halt and make a U-turn that Dr. Francis D Moore had a better way of applying gauze, which was later and better than the tan method. I have to remind myself that most likely all ways of doing things have not been the same right from the beginning.

I read of him in the best American Science & Nature Writing series. Essay 'Desperate Measures' by Atul Gawande

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