Word: catgut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed the lumpy grey lung high up where the windpipe separates into two branches. Then he tied the stump with a tight catgut knot. Finally he stitched up the chest muscles. To his great joy, his colleague survived...
...immediately replaced and the pericardium stitched with catgut. A small opening was left in which Dr. Nicoll inserted a rubber drainage tube. Then he tucked the ribs back in place with 50 stitches. A week later, after several blood transfusions, the drainage tube was removed. For five weeks Patrolman Manning remained in an oxygen tent, and for several months he was given massages to stimulate his heart muscles. Last week Manhattan papers reported that Patrolman Manning was well enough to attend Magistrate's Court for the hearing of his case...
...Belgrade, Jugoslavia, Sherifa Achmetashevitch's pearls vanished overnight from the table on which she had left them. Weeks later, a servant spied a pearl in a mousehole, scrabbled about until all were recovered. The mouse that stole them had eaten the catgut string...
Besides such touchy topics, U. S. doctors are to receive from the forthcoming A. M. A. convention the following information: C. A special survey of catgut sutures is under...
...observations of man and life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful...