Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advances in technique had made the procedure safe enough. On operation morning, Ro Anne got a general anesthetic. Then she was put in an ice bath. After 15 minutes, her temperature had dropped about 6° F. She was taken out of the bath and Dr. Newman opened her chest. The surgeons saw the rare type of aortic narrowing they had expected, and decided to correct it by putting in a patch. They inserted tubes in the great veins near her heart and in a thigh artery, to hook her up to a heart-lung machine...
...Conformity is basically a psychotic state. That is the frontier that has to be opened. To hell with the astronauts. To hell with the moon. There's a whole sky in your chest that's waiting to be explored...
...said Dr. Daniels, Chang complained of pains in his chest, though Eng still felt well. Chang's doctor ordered the twins to stay indoors. But in their turn-and-turnabout living pattern, it was time for them to move from Chang's house in White Plains, N.C., to Eng's. They made the switch in a buggy in the damp January cold of the North Carolina mountains. Next night, Eng awoke with a feeling of unease and called in one of his sons. Said the boy: "Uncle Chang is dead." Eng replied: "Then I am going also...
...Medicine Chest. On the fringes of the swamp live veteran trappers and guides who can recite the ballad without missing a beat, and who know every legend about the dark mysteryland. The swamp water is perfectly potable and is famed for its long-staying qualities of freshness, but it looks as if it had been pumped from an outhouse. For years, the swamp's vegetation was supposed to be an unequaled medicine chest. The pale blue hepatica, with leaves shaped like the lobes of the liver, was good for any liver disorder. Virginia Bluebell cured chest ailments. The common...
...below the left nipple, the compact machine delivers 2,000 to 2,200 volts in a one-two pulse-first in one direction, then in the other. When a heart-disease patient or an electric-shock victim has a fibrillation attack, says Dr. Jude, first-aid methods (chest massage and mouth-to-mouth breathing) must be used promptly, and kept up until the doctor arrives with the electrical defibrillator. Electric-linemen, who are frequent victims of shock fibrillation, are being trained to use the machine on their buddies without waiting for a doctor...