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...superb piece of needlework with sterile sutures, yet somehow the wound may still become infected just where the stitches were placed. Lord Lister, father of antisepsis and asepsis, knew this almost a century ago, and tried soaking his sutures in phenol (carbolic acid) to make them active as germ killers. But the effect wore off too soon. Surprisingly, even modern-day stainless steel sutures are almost as likely to be the site of an infection a few days after an operation...
Post-mortem examination disclosed patches of pneumonia, caused by "a very virulent form of germ," in both of Washkansky's lungs. Drugs given to suppress the immune reaction had inevitably made the patient more susceptible to such an infection. Chief Surgeon Barnard summed up: "I wouldn't like to call this operation an experiment-it was treatment of a sick patient. Although Washkansky died, I don't think we have any evidence that transplantation is not good treatment for certain heart diseases. And we certainly have not found any evidence to discourage us from continuing...
...final chapters of Find a Victim and The Far Side of the Dollar this pang of identification is the germ of scenes of high domestic tragedy, moments without analogy in any recent writing. If MacDonald can be said to have any thematic obsession (and high art and obsession have been known to keep close company) it is the family: its tensions, its distorting cruelty, and its strange dignity. In each of these long concluding sequences Archer, and through him the reader, must witness at length the inexorable working-out of old guilts and old loves...
...committed to directing The American Male, an irreverent look at the species by European women, and Tom Swift, a satirical treatment of derring-do in the early 1900s. Last week he began flexing his joints for a dancing stint on the Jackie Gleason Show. No barbell and wheat-germ addict, he simply runs around the block every morning, gradually increasing the laps until he feels the urge to go soft-shoeing all over the neighborhood...
Jules Romains' play is as tightly constructed as a Chinese puzzle, and just as wooden. He has even turned the sure-fire stage trick of Before and After into a dull science. We see a fresh-air mountain town transformed into a germ-crazy health spa. We watch a number of perfectly sound people subject themselves to two minutes of Dr.Knock's patter and turn into stretcher cases. But the one gimmick is pursued with such lethal, plodding logic that it nearly kills the play...