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Most belly-rippers in these cases were fragments of bomb casing, sometimes as large as walnuts. Common abdominal injuries included bowels scorched by incendiary bullets, coils of intestine cut to ribbons by flying glass, or loops of gut hanging out of slashed stomachs. Sometimes, although no missiles penetrated the abdominal cavity, indriven fragments of bone did as much damage as bullets. Concussion of a nearby bomb often produced fatal internal hemorrhages, torn spleen and liver. "Immersion blast"-internal injury inflicted on sailors in the water near an exploding depth bomb-sometimes produced ripped intestines, peritonitis, bleeding from ears and mouth...
...sometimes, when much damage has been done, it is necessary to cut out the section of damaged gut, patch the whole ends together again. As much as six feet of small intestine, he said, "have been removed with success." Chiefly responsible for the great reduction in mortality are: 1) the liberal use of sulfa drugs, both sprinkled on the wounds and taken internally; 2) massive blood transfusions-in some cases as much as eleven pints-which make possible bolder operations than were risked in World...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
Last week Oklahoma City heard more arm-waving, gut-busting grand opera than any other city outside Manhattan. The singing was tops: it was recorded (by Victor). The acting was well up to Metropolitan par: it was done by puppets. All week the Victor Puppet Opera Troupe played four-a-day in the auditorium of the John A. Brown store. On Saturday the puppets mugged their way through an extra performance of Carmen, to music broadcast from the Metropolitan...
...trapper, was not uncomfortable; if he plugged the wound, he could eat. The failure of Dr. Beaumont to heal that wound made him one of the great figures in medical history. For, by putting a tube in the wound, he observed the movements of St. Martin's gut, discovered the digestive juices and hydrochloric acid...