Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ochsner innovation is the special recovery room to which patients are taken immediately after operations. Each bed is piped for oxygen; emergency equipment like blood plasma is at hand; nurses are always in the room; relatives and friends are kept out. The room is Ochsner's pride...
...Swan," so he has again been thrust into the locale of his former triumph, this time as a member of the Cortez expedition. But Tyrone has been shortchanged; Twentieth Century Fox, though providing violent color contrasts, strident blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power himself suffers more than all his adversaries combined, culminating with a grievous...
Most people who go to technicolor extravaganzas would rather have duels than dialogue, and battles than brainfood. If spectacles can be said to have a purpose, it is to give pure entertainment. The technicolor plot is generally too flimsy to carry on unless buoyed up by blood and swordplay. Until some cinemogul realizes that an intelligent picture can be filmed in color, this is the way it will always be: that the number of corpses is directly proportional to the worth of the picture...
Betty Lee's heart kept its steady rhythm; the procaine had done its work. The operation was over in an hour and 35 minutes. The third day the patient sat up in bed; on the fourth, she was walking. By the fifth day her venous blood pressure, almost three times normal before the operation, was within the upper limits of normal. Her abdominal swelling was gone, her color was good, and she joked with visitors...
Thirty-year-old Don Fegenbush is one of the oldest "blue babies" known to medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don decided to risk the operation devised by Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock (TIME...