Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, trypsin was used mainly in wound dressings or in local injections to clear infections in the chest. Lately, in purified form, it has been injected into veins and muscles. Dr. Innerfield dripped it into the veins of rabbits and dogs and concluded that it was safe; large doses, he said, had a powerful effect in preventing the formation of blood clots and dissolving those already formed. He has since given it to 428 patients with 52 different complaints and, he says, with good effect in nearly all: reduction of inflammation and swelling in arthritis, dissolution of blood clots...
...Africa, Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist Ernest (The Old Man and the Sea) Hemingway made copy for Columnist Leonard Lyons merely by talking like Hemingway. ". . . On the train to New York he had sneezed -and his belt burst. He bought a new one, 40 waist. 'Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never...
...Leipzig, 1,400 zinc and steel workers marched on strike, tore hats and guns away from traffic policemen who tried to halt them, grabbed Leipzig Mayor Uhlich and forced him to march at the head, his chest covered with a sign saying: "Down with the Government!" Where one German fell dead from a Vopo's bullet, the revolters heaped flowers and set up a sign: "Here a German was shot to death by a German...
...years ago. Recently, however, with the setting up of artery banks, more and more daring surgical feats of this type have succeeded. In last week's A.M.A. Journal, the two Houston doctors reported on what they believe is the first successful operation on an aneurysm high in the chest...
Under ether, the sheriff's chest was opened, and the surgeons clamped off the aorta on both sides of the enlargement. As soon as they removed enough of the mass to give themselves working space, they cut the aorta at each side. Into the gap they stitched a 6-in. piece of aorta taken from another patient, a Negro who had died of injuries a few days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps...