Surprise Solution: Wet Wound
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: How to avoid the agonies of removing a dressing; the expense of replacing a water pump that’s dropped from a corroded pipe. How students spread throughout the country can have a classroom discussion - some surprise solutions. Skin is a marvellous, elastic, breathing, waterproof coat. Combining delicacy with strength, it provides a barrier against bacteria, and it looks good too. But when injured, a dressing is applied that’s the complete antithesis of skin; and changing it can damage new cells and give rise to scars. But a new plastic dressing behaves just like real skin. It improves the rate of healing and reduces disfigurement.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/273
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