Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during World War II, when he removed shell fragments from servicemen's hearts. His main postwar concern has been with heart valves, especially mitral valves that have been damaged by rheumatic fever. In 1948, he was one of a few bold surgeons who first dared to slip a finger, with a tiny surgical knife at the tip, into a beating heart to separate the leaflets of a mitral valve partly closed by scarring...
...objective of surgery in such cases is not only to re-establish joint space by the cutting and removal of thickened tissue, but also to relocate tightened tendons so maximum flexion is obtained in the joints. Dr. Sakellarides began the operation at the joints between hand and fingers where he made an incision across the knuckles, cut through joint tissue, and removed the heads of the hand bones. Then he moved down to the finger joints where he cut out more thickened tissue, removed some ligaments, as well as the shortened tendon fibers which cause swan-neck deformity...
...make the repair complete, Dr. Sakellarides inserted tiny pieces of wire between the hand and finger bones, establishing temporary "hinges" for the joints there. He made artificial pulleys out of soft tissue so that tendons would be kept in place. Finally, after stopping the bleeding, he sutured the incisions and placed the hand and fingers in a cast...
...Small Hello. Born and raised in a stone hut in a primitive village four miles north of Jerusalem, Shoman at 23 emigrated to the U.S. and became a door-to-door salesman of dry-goods products. "I only knew how to say 'cheap, cheap' and then make finger signs to show the price," he says. What he lacked in English he more than made up in hard work. He soon opened a dressmaking factory in Manhattan's garment district, where an Arab was bound to get a small hello. He was homesick. Seeing how U.S. banks helped...
...Chains that Release. For these men, prison is not so much a confinement as a release. "It pleases me that everything should be forbidder," muses one of them. "I want to be forbidden to raise my little finger. I want exact count to be kept of my coughs, my glances, my sighs. I want no one to forget the slammed door, the lost handkerchief, the hidden cigarette, the broken shoelace; I want to be bound so tight that at the slightest movement the chains will bruise my flesh. I want to be pierced by light, I want to be absolutely...