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Hair of the Hog. Even getting at the aneurysm, which is nearly always at the base of the brain in the arterial traffic rotary ("circle of Willis"), is a major operation. It involves sawing through and lifting a flap of skull and moving the brain out of the way. The commonest method of treatment has been to tie off the aneurysm at its stem with a tiny silver clip, or close the artery with clips on each side of the stem. Dr. Gallagher was not satisfied with these methods because merely touching the aneurysm to attach a clip might cause...
...hair, though thin, had to be stiff. Dr. Gallagher tried hair from the heads of Orientals. No good. He tried coarse eyebrow hairs. Not much better. Then he found that hog's hair was scaly enough to cause clotting, and stiff enough to be fired from the gun. So is hair from a horse's tail...
Dangerous Leak. Last June Dr. Gallagher operated on a man of 40 with a dangerously leaking aneurysm. After opening the patient's skull, he fired a hog's hair into the aneurysm which was ten times as big across as its parent artery. Within 15 minutes, clotting had set in and the aneurysm was shrinking. Dr. Gallagher fired in five more hairs. By the time he finished closing the patient's skull, the aneurysm was less than one-third its original size. The patient later died of causes unrelated to the operation. But within a month, Gallagher...
...last two nationally ranked college teams, Ohio State and Michigan State, say hello to the 1962 football season today, but several unranked clubs are slated to hog most of the spotlight on this second big Saturday of the young campaign...
...chairman of a subcommittee investigating welfare fraud in the District of Columbia, he was plucking bread from the mouths of women and children. As Byrd's probe ended last week, it was apparent that some of those women and children had been eating pretty high off the hog...