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Word: feneuil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been in use, research on finding foreign bodies still goes on in the attempt to bridge a surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Un-haystacking a Needle | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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