Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students will come over the bridge too. Some will walk quickly, whistling a bit, pausing a second to drink from a leather bound flask, pulling a brightly clad girl along by the hand...
...blood volume (and hence, blood pressure) at the beginning, so that there would be little or no loss from uncontrollable bleeding at the site of operation. They opened an artery in the wrist and let the heart pump the blood out through a rubber tube into a collecting flask (containing heparin, to prevent clotting). By an ingenious arrangement of valves and flasks, the doctors could draw more blood at will, leave the supply stationary, or pump it back. With the systolic blood pressure down to about 80 mm., the surgeons could operate more confidently because they had the patient...