Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's Agfa line has a standout offering in a new automatic "66," a 120-film camera with a built-in light meter that computes the correct exposure time, then sets the shutter to the correct speed automatically. Price...
Operations like this-sometimes on damaged valves, often to correct defects inside the heart itself-are being duplicated a hundred times or more each week in a dozen or so U.S. medical centers where heart surgery has become an everyday affair. Many surgeons use heart-lung machines more or less similar to Bailey's. Some chill their patients to a body temperature 10° or more below normal. Others may plunge a needle into a patient's heart and deliberately stop its beat for as long as they need to work inside it. Generally, they cut, stitch, stretch...
Three to Watch. By one method or another, heart surgeons can now correct an impressive number of defects, including patent ducts, narrowing of the aorta, aneurysms (ballooning blisters) of the aorta, holes between the walls of either auricles or ventricles, scarred and narrowed valves. Three problems are getting special attention...
...Blue babies. The Blalock-Taussig operation, with later modifications, is relatively safe but does not correct the underlying defects; it merely seeks to counteract them by adding an abnormal blood shunt. Young enthusiasts believe that an effort should be made to correct the abnormalities (open the pulmonary valve, close the interventricular defect and thus correct the overriding of the aorta). But deaths during and soon after operations of this type, with the heart-lung machine...
Pharaohs Knew. "I think he is a beautifully balanced hound," said Mrs. Godsol as she gave the Westminster sterling dish to Shirkhan's owners, Sunny Shay and Dorothy Chenade. "He has a good Oriental Afghan expression and the correct lean Afghan head. He was the soundest moving of the six, and he is a very good showman...