Word: castillos
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Murder is not a capital crime in Lower California, but General Contreras took no chances in waiting for a trial. All the next night a court martial sat. At sunrise the prisoner. Private Juan Castillo Morales, 24, was hustled to the cemetery on a nearby hill, told to run for his life. A firing squad of his fellow soldiers finished him quickly...
Mexico's Ambassador to the U. S., Francisco Castillo Nájera, a one time army doctor, by avocation a poet and musician, a lusty trencherman who loves life and lives it, one of the homeliest, most decorated and at times brutally outspoken of diplomats, another of the most respected for his intelligence...
...small allowance they get from onetime King Alfonso XIII, who until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon as the young people had their pantry filled and their curtains hung, they summoned Dr. Pedro A. Castillo, a general practitioner, to diagnose the rump pain. The doctor suspected an abscess caused by a hypodermic injection which the young man received just before leaving Europe...
Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
...blood of people who have had their spleens removed seems to coagulate faster than the blood of normal individuals. Two young Cuban physicians who had arrested hemorrhages with transfusions from splenectomized individuals suggested that Drs. Castillo and Núñez do the same. They did so, 22 times, taking blood from one spleenless man, two spleenless women. Gradually, for reasons unknown to medicine, the bleeding diminished, finally ceased. Fortnight ago his doctors told the Count that their measures had not cured him permanently but assured him that he was well enough to travel. With his right foot...