Word: blooding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly one of four St. Petersburg residents is over 65, against a national average of one in twelve-the city is also a winter shelter for 75,000 chilled Northerners. Most of the newcomers are as far along in years as the steady customers in Central Avenue's blood-pressure shops (50? a reading) and the softball players on the St. Petersburg Pels and Gulls (age range: 50 to 75). As the visitors arrive, the need for additional obituary space goes up proportionately...
Barium X rays had shown that the girls, joined for 5 in. down the middle of their chests and abdomens, had separate digestive tracts. Radiopaque dyes, injected into the bloodstream, had shown that each had two kidneys, and separate bile ducts. But blood was crossing the bridge between the twins. The important question: How much? Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication...
...operating theater there was a quartet for each twin: senior surgeon and assisting resident, anesthesiologist and scrub nurse. Standing by were a pediatrician to direct replacement of blood and other fluids, a clinical pathologist, a cardiologist with a heart-lung machine, a bone-and-joint surgeon...
...were joined. But before this problem could be faced, the surgeons separated the rib cages, found that the hearts were surrounded by a fused sac. They cut it so that Jeanett's heart had a normal sac; Denett's was open until they stitched it shut. Major blood vessels to the liver proved to be separate, but in cutting the bridge dividing the two organs, no fewer than 75 minor vessels had to be cut, and their bleeding stanched. Separated at last, each twin had her own quartet working independently-and with welcome elbow room-to close...
Died. Cinemactor Errol (Captain Blood) Flynn, 50; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. A carefree hedonist who recently described himself as a man who had "seen everything twice," he was a sort of U.S. saloonfolk hero to movie fans who once made him one of the ten biggest box-office draws. Born in Tasmania, where his zoologist father, an Australian, was a lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Flynn, blessed with quicksilver wit and a steel physique, was a glass-jawed boxer with a good right, a global Jack-of-all-trades, and a freebooting South Sea sailor before...