FYI – Real Willard Water & Burns
Excerpts from a "60 Minutes"
investigation.
HARRY REASONER: On burns for example,
producer Paul Loewenwarter talked with
Chauncey Taylor who scorched his leg
doing some welding on an old oil drum.
CHAUNCEY TAYLOR: The fumes in it, I
guess, ignited and blowed out a hole
and melted my overalls. I had a pair
of poly. . . polyester overalls on and
it melted them and melted my shirt
and burnt my leg.
PAUL LOEWENWARTER: So you looked down
and just saw your leg charred?
TAYLOR: I looked down and the skin was
just hanging all different ways there.
LOEWENWARTER: Well what did you do to
treat it?
TAYLOR: Oh, I had a bottle of this
LA Water and I just started squirting
it on there and just kept pouring it
on, a fine mist.
LOEWENWARTER: And what does it do?
TAYLOR: It heals it I guess.
DR. RAY LEMLEY: And I said now look,
let’s try this out.
REASONER: Dr. Ray Lemley is a prominent
surgeon, now retired, but still Chauncey
Taylor’s family doctor. He told Chauncey
to keep spraying the burn with Real
Willard Water. We wondered what the
normal treatment would have been.
LEMLEY: Well you’d put different
kinds of medicine on it. There’s all
kinds of medicine for burns. Any
housewife has a dozen and that would
kill off the new cells and damage the
wound. It would be too strong, usually,
and burn it and interfere with the
healing of it. This, we did nothing to
interfere with the healing of it.
REASONER: Would the normal procedure
be to graft?
LEMLEY: Well, if you took him to the
hospital they would have probably grafted
that by this time and by the time that
he gets the scabs off of this and it’s
all healed up, your place you took your
graft off from it would still be raw.
So we’re way ahead.
REASONER: Chauncey’s scab was all gone
about three weeks after the burn, and
three months after that we dropped by to
see the final results.
CHAUNCEY TAYLOR: Well, it’s all
healed up.
editors note: The picture shows new,
baby soft skin. No scars.
Finally…
REASONER: Because people are drinking
Real Willard Water and pouring it on
burns and infections, we wondered whether
this unlikely mixture has anything in it
that could do anybody any harm. We took
samples to Industrial Testing Laboratories
in New York City. Their results were the
same as other tests. They found nothing
harmful, either in the way of bacteria or
metals that could hurt you. But they didn’t
find much else either. So, what it does,
how it does it, if it does it remains a
mystery. It remains a mystery even to
the Chief Medical Officer of South Dakota’s
Department of Health, Dr. Robert Hayes.
DR. ROBERT HAYES: My professional opinion
about it, of course, is, has been that a
lot of people use it. I’ve seen results of
what they said it did. I’ve never had
occasion to use it on a patient.
Have had no more opinion than that, sir.
REASONER: You’ve never used it yourself?
HAYES: No, Sir. I haven’t.
REASONER: On the other hand, you’ve had
no reason to assume it would hurt anybody?
HAYES: No I haven’t, as a matter of fact.
Anything I’ve heard about it has been
nothing bad. It has always been on the
positive side.