Word: catgut
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...largest in the region, doctors one day recently counted 1,800 patients suffering from kwashiorkor: during the whole of 1963, the same hospital treated 18 such cases. At the military hospital in the same city, Major David Ofomata, chief medical adviser, tells visitors that everything from antibiotics to catgut is needed, and explains that surgeons have to operate without being able to anesthetize their patients...
...bent by the instrument's grooved anvil at tolerances of two-thousandths of an inch; their tops are rounded like the letter B so that blood can continue to circulate through the two arches and the sutured tissue will not be squeezed to death. Unlike silk or catgut sutures, which can harbor infection, the stainless steel staples are virtually nonreactive and do not hinder healing...
...Music), this disarming comedy spectacular has the charm, spirit and easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic, outlandish armada of vintage aircraft. These flaphappy contraptions include at least six flyable full-scale models, among them a facsimile of the plane in which France's Louis Blériot made his historic 1909 flight across the English Channel...
...Catgut & Catnap. The six-man crew climbs aboard with its frozen TV lunches, its printed forms (27 of them have to be filled in during and after the flight), and 100 Ibs. or so of survival gear apiece. One pilot, Major Adelbert Gionet, a SAC plane commander for eleven years, carries toothbrush and mouthwash along, as well as a surgical needle and catgut ("If I ever rip any of me, I want to be able to put myself together"), and a flask of whisky. They all carry knives, since a knife has proved to be the most durable and versatile...
Jaime's family has scrimped and saved to keep him in catgut. His father padded out an annual $600 allowance, given Jaime by the Bolivian government, with jobs as a theater usher, truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible by the sale of the family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing...