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...appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were level; his arms, hands and even his fingertips were distended with air, and were tympanitic on percussion. His abdomen, legs and particularly his scrotum were greatly enlarged. The scrotum was about the size of a football and was tense and tympanitic. The patient's condition was obviously precarious. He became cyanotic, respirations became irregular and pulse weak...
Treatment proved simple. "A large-bore needle was inserted into the scrotum and air under pressure whistled out. The size of the scrotum did not change for some time, but it was noted that the swelling of the abdomen had somewhat decreased. It was found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected...
...Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise, put Patient McHenry on the table, opened her up, pushed her intestines and stomach into her abdomen, darned the diaphragmatic partition shut, closed her body, called the job done...
...serious doctor no longer feels like Christ over Lazarus when he makes a dead patient's heart beat again. An injection of adrenalin or a tickle with the electrical pacemaker may do the trick. Or, if the patient is on the operating table with his abdomen or chest open, the surgeon may massage the heart into motion. Nonethe-less this stale medical story still looks like news and is printed, often on front pages a dozen times a year for the bench of those who cannot remember what they read...
Last week Assistant Superintendent William Victor Machonachy of the University of Maryland's University Hospital (oldest in Baltimore, founded 1823), told how a staff surgeon was working inside a woman's abdomen when the anesthetist suddenly cried: "Doctor, I cannot feel her pulse." The surgeon thrust his hand under the patient's diaphragm, gently squeezed the heart against the chest wall, slowly relaxed it, squeezed again, relaxed. In a few seconds the heart was beating by itself, and the surgeon resumed the operation...