Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiatus. With the small patient under ether, Dr. Swan made a huge incision to open chest and abdomen. He pulled out a loop of the jejunum (uppermost part of the small intestine) and cut it off near the duodenum. Carefully he worked the long, free end upward to the diaphragm. For a time Dr. Swan had to turn his attention back to the dangling duodenum (see chart): he made a T-junction by stitching its attached bit of jejunum into the intestinal tract a couple of feet below the original cut (making a natural outlet for digestive juices...
...eyes, says Stapp dispassionately. "It felt a though my eyes were being pulled out of my head-about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is being yanked an you feel the roots begin to give. I had great difficulty breathing because of the tightness of my chest strap. When the sle stopped, the salmon blur was still there." As a medical man, Stapp knew that th Gs had pulled his eyeballs outward an "impinged them against the eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas had-been detached (which would have...
...Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended to use to build a playground, if she discontinued her act. For his good Samaritanism, this week Stainless has a knife thrown squarely into his chest (see cut). But he had the foresight to outfit himself with a wooden vest...
...first exposures showed what the doctors had been looking for. At the hiatus, where the esophagus (gullet) passes through the muscular diaphragm from the chest cavity into the abdominal cavity (see diagram), the muscle was weak and part of the upper stomach had herniated or bulged through it. How the hernia started, they could not tell (it might have been there in milder form since birth), but there was no doubt that it was the cause of much of the Pope's recent gastritis, hiccuping and vomiting. The hernia held food like a pouch, instead of letting it pass...
...Stanley Wisniewski, 24, an X-ray technician at Chicago's Lutheran Deaconess Hospital, slumped to the darkroom floor with a heart attack. Stimulants and artificial respiration failed: his heart had stopped. A passing surgeon whipped out a pocket knife, sliced open Wisniewski's chest (while he still lay on the floor) and massaged the heart with his bare hand. After 2¼ hours, and more conventional treatment as equipment was rounded up, Wisniewski's heart resumed its beat. This week he was doing well...