Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Dewey and Warren have been charged with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...
...skin-grafting operation was a bloody business. Each new stitch to hold the big skin-patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
...Skins. Dr. Sano grafted skin on rats' chests or the napes of their necks, the areas that move the most. She first removed a small piece of skin from the test area and waited four days for healing to start. For grafting, she used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...
...hours, she says, such a graft is pink and traversed by tiny veins from the tissue below. "The procedure has resulted in 100% takes...
...Livers. When Dr. Sano announced her glue last July in the American Journal of Surgery, it was already being used successfully on Temple University Hospital skin-graft patients. In Science last week, she and Surgeon Clarence A. Holland made a new announcement...