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Saline baths helped WWII pilots recover from severe burns

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When British fighter pilots crashed and burned during WWII, Archibald McIndoe boldly ignored the agonizing standard burn treatments of the era that simply peeled off healing skin. Instead, he pioneered revolutionary saline baths and radical reconstructive surgery, creating a legendary drinking club for his disfigured patients called the Guinea Pig Club to repair both their faces and their psyches.

Saline baths helped WWII pilots recover from severe burns
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