Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though several teams of mechanically minded surgeons have been working for years on substitute hearts, it was a group of newcomers in this kind of work who reported the latest advance. Dr. Forest Dewey Dodrill, 50, specialized in chest surgery until two years ago, when he threw himself into the heart-machine project. General Motors research engineers helped him perfect the pump. After experiments on dogs, the surgeons were ready for a human patient...
...Rubber Pistons. In July, they found their volunteer: a man of 41 whose mitral valve (between the upper and lower quarters of the heart's left side) was not working right because of rheumatic-fever scars. His chest was opened. Through a vein leading from a lung, a tube was slipped into the upper left side of the heart. This drew blood out of the heart to the six-cylinder pump, where fingerlike rubber pistons boosted it on its way. From the pump another tube led the pulsing blood back to the patient's aorta, where it would...
Until this f. 3.5 entrepreneur came along the baseball umpire was a valuable if not always respected citizen. At worst he was a mainstay for cartoonists. At best he was a grand figure standing upright and strong as the pop bottles whomped off his chest protector, his arms folded and jaw set, as the players slunk to the showers and the managers fumed in their dugouts. His eyes were weak but his word was law and his wrath was a sight to behold...
...With a chest full of ribbons, the letter went on, "Hot Shot" Callahan found himself in demand as a speaker at lectures, dinners and bond rallies when he returned to the U.S. He accepted with pleasure, found the audiences were intrigued at first by his war experiences. "But after a while," the letter said, "Callahan began to notice that more & more of his dinner partners were talking to the people on their other side or across the table - and even sometimes across his own smartly tailored jacket, as though he wasn't there. And Callahan never seemed...
...Bailey and his colleagues opened Judith's chest and cut open her heart. With clamps they stopped the blood flow and slowed the heart's action. Then they sewed a piece of the upper heart sac over the hole (as big as a half dollar) in the partition, closing it completely. As soon as they had stitched up the heart covering again, they gently massaged Judith's heart and got it beating at a normal rate...