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...skiing accident. By last December they were engaged, looking forward happily and hopefully to Lee Barnwell's graduation, when they could be married. Then their troubles began. Barbara Ann's foot did not heal properly, and she entered a Denver hospital for surgery. When she awoke from anesthesia after the operation, Air Cadet Barnwell was at her bedside. He had borrowed a car and driven from Colorado Springs to be with her. In so doing, he had broken academy regulations against driving-and as punishment he was restricted to the academy for the next four months, all that...
...case of 11 oz. Monkey Baker was simpler and happier. She hailed from the jungle near Iquitos, Peru. Her electrodes were successfully removed under local anesthesia by a Navy doctor. The Navy hopes to breed her in a year or so, and examine her offspring for genetic effects of space...
From volunteers under total anesthesia his colleagues extracted 200 to 300 cc. of bone marrow each, through as many as 20 punctures into the breastbone and hip bones. Dr. Jammet promptly injected this fluid into the veins of the five Yugoslavs. One, who had soaked up 1,000 r., died. In the other four, the donors' marrow cells made blood for them until their own marrow began working again. They are now convalescing at home...
...after implantation, the doctors send a gentle electric current through the electrode to find out whether the patient feels a tingling in his fingers, arm or foot (always on the side opposite the electrode). This gives yet another check on placement. Finally they use a strong enough current, under anesthesia, to destroy a small part of the thalamus...
...life-threatening clot to form: the legs, because the blood "pools" there during inactivity. Two Canadian surgeons now suggest an ingenious way of keeping the patient's leg muscles and veins working about as energetically as though he were walking around, even when he is under deep anesthesia...