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...electric knife cuts through the bowel it shrivels the severed ends, leaving them looking like the puckered ends of sausages. Thus no infectious intestinal material can leak into the peritoneum. After Dr. Whitaker removes the diseased segment of the bowel, he brings the healthy ends together and darns them in such manner that the burnt tissue lies within the passageway of the bowel. In 24 hours the burnt tissue sloughs off and passes away. The bowel no longer is obstructed, and in three weeks the patient is as well as ever...
...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
...Johnson's Boston colleague and good friend, Dr. Edward Lorraine Young Jr., then suggested that Dr. Johnson give him some concentrated amniotic fluid to try as a prophylactic. In risky bowel operations where the mortality rate is usually about 30% Dr. Young had the satisfaction of reducing it to about 2%. These Johnson-Young experiments went successfully forward to the point where the two doctors last week felt warranted in making this significant announcement to their fellow surgeons: Three ounces of the concentrate injected into the peritoneum four to six hours before an operation will, in a vast majority...
...fellow of the American College of Surgeons would like to have among his case records was the appendectomy which unpretentious Drs. John Walmsley Barnaby Jr. and T. W. Griffin performed in Baltimore last week on Marcia Shepherd's 30-minute-old baby. The appendix and a knuckle of bowel projected through a rupture in the infant's abdominal wall. That hole the surgeons also mended, then placed the tiny patient in an incubator to recuperate...
Lucky Jaspara Servia recovered, after Dr. John S. Deyell of Ravenna sewed up two five-inch rips in the bowel. Pranksters Daniel Desko and Frank Pudaski, who admitted inflating Servia as "a practical joke," were arrested, held in $500 bond on charges of assault...