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Major & Minor. Sterilization of a woman, or salpingectomy, is admittedly major surgery, but Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, contends that it is no more difficult or dangerous than an appendectomy. It must be done in a hospital under general anesthesia. Through an abdominal incision, a gynecological surgeon cuts both Fallopian tubes and ties off the separated ends. After that there is no way for an egg to pass from the ovary to the womb...
...this over-suave tale. Its stagy business, and that of the Duchess of Combon de Triton, is to make her "appallingly stupid" cluke the first faithful husband in Spanish history. Her scheme is to win his compassion by feigning illness and his awe by submitting to surgical cures without anesthesia or a whimper. Some 30 agonizing operations later, the duke commits suicide. Now the widow, whose "only joy is to make others stay out of their own lives," can begin to "enjoy" her two children. "You may do what you want, but not before my death, which is quite near...
There is, however, some sugar on the pill. The action is feverish and the interns sometimes leave the customers in stitches. But for the most part, the picture is an exploratory operation conducted, alas, without anesthesia...
...head and another smaller wound-from the second of the three shots-in his throat. Clark and eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph to record his heartbeat...
...anesthesiologist gets an early warning-well before his mixture of gases has actually reached the danger point. Dr. John F. Zeedick of Braddock General Hospital, near Pittsburgh, working with the Mine Safety Appliances Co., has developed a portable combustible gas indicator that can be conveniently hooked into most modern anesthesia machines. Its moving needle shows safe concentrations of gas on a green scale, cautionary readings on an orange scale. When the explosive level is reached, the needle crosses onto a red scale. Dr. Zeedick's machine can be calibrated for five different anesthesia mixtures...