Fishermen in India have always prized it for the making of their nets; American Civil War soldiers frequently used it as a surgical dressing.
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The broken ankle and the ligament injuries will be taped with a special surgical dressing and will allow Mr . Aamodt to start rehabilitation today,
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Government studies found that had Medicare in 1995 paid the price listed in a national catalog for surgical dressings, it would have saved $ 20 million.
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Most patients arrive in surgical dressings resembling shower caps and chin-strapped napkins, retire to their rooms and hole up until they dare venture out in hats and sunglasses.
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It was on such a corner on the South Side of Chicago that the first Walgreens was erected in 1901, selling drugs, surgical dressings, potions, lotions and the like.
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As a young adult during World War II, Lingo became active in District social life, volunteering with the American Red Cross, translating letters in French, and making surgical dressings.
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Inspired by Louis Pasteur's ideas on microbial infection, the English doctor Joseph Lister demonstrated in 1865 that use of carbolic acid on surgical dressings would significantly reduce rates of post-surgical infection.
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He worked as a Quality Control Technician at the Johnson and Johnson Midwest Surgical Dressing plant in Bedford Park, IL and later as a studio assistant at Shigeta-Wright Photography Studio in Chicago.
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Further, mostly medium-sized enterprises include the manufacturing of steel furniture and of surgical dressing materials, cleaning contractors, and businesses in engineering construction ( namely of pipework and of solar energy plants ).
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Reimbursement for their capital costs would be reduced by 15 percent, and payments to nursing homes for routine items such as surgical dressings and diaper kits would be folded into reimbursement rates for room and board.
