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Several days after, while still very sick, the young doctor felt an "agonizing pain" in his legs; they turned cold and blue. The clot had been dislodged from his heart, had traveled along the aorta (main heart artery) till it became stuck at the point where the artery branched in two, low in his back, just above his legs. Calling his nurse, the doctor told her he was doomed, reminded her of a patient who had the same kind of embolism, lost his legs and died...
...Waddie's most famous puzzling cases a man had been killed during a shooting fray, but the nearest bullet was found on the floor four feet from the corpse. Some unknown missile had penetrated the breastbone and windpipe, grazed the esophagus, pierced the large artery (aorta) leading from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone...
...swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...
...most polished charlatan ... of the century." Abrams made lasting contributions to the science of medicine by discovering that when the skin of the chest is irritated, the heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that he could diagnose specific diseases by means of a machine which resembled a radio receiver. By means of this "Oscilloclast...
...with a burr abraded a raw spot on the beating heart. Against that raw spot he placed the raw end of the pectoral muscle. Within a short time blood vessels grew out of the muscle and into the heart, thus supplying blood by a roundabout channel from the aorta across the chest and into the side of the heart...