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Show Cream Developed by Navy Medical Corps Protects Skin From 'Flash Burn' Injuries s A skin cream tha gives positive protection against oue of the deadliest deadli-est and most disabling of battle hazardsflash haz-ardsflash bums has been perfected perfect-ed by Naval Medical researchers. The substance has the consisten- cy of ordinary cold cream but is battleship gray in color. About an I ounce and a half, smeared across I the face, neck, forearms and hands, j will afford protection of those parts. It Is not necessary to apply the' thin coating to covered portions of the body since clothing alone even a thin undershirt provides adequate protection against all but the most intense flash burns. Picture shows a laboratory-made flash burn on the arm of Lieut. Com Gordon B. Fauley, who is in charge of the research project that developed devel-oped the cream. |