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Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...
...Bailey's routine: an incision is made just below the breastbone. The surgeon strokes the heart from below the diaphragm, "with quick forcible movement for half a minute." He withdraws his hand for a minute while the anesthetist injects adrenalin, then makes a bigger opening, starts squeezing the heart...
...Picture emerges as a dazzlingly colored musical wheeze sparkled only by the sporadic appearances of Carmen Miranda, the lively, liver-lipped singer and diaphragm dancer who came to Broadway two years ago in The Streets of Paris. Only the plushiest side of life in Rio is shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background...
...Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain, the God in whom he devoutly believed had reserved the most painful death a man can die. Death came to him slowly last week with the agony that crept from his chest around his diaphragm, up into his neck and down to the tips of his slender, beautiful fingers. His physician, Professor Cesare Frugoni, had moved him from his bed to a chair to give him an injection, then had been afraid he could not survive the effort of being carried back to bed. He was propped up in the chair when Italy...
...Water is an excellent conductor of sound, much better than air. As in air, abound wave in water registers against a diaphragm as a series of mechanical impulses. One early type of hydrophone was like a crude telephone. A rubber diaphragm immersed in the water received the impulses, transmitted them to a carbon-granule chamber, thence through wires to the earphones...