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In the emergency room, Dr. Joseph Belshe made an instant decision: with out waiting even to wash his hands, he ripped open Fruehling's heavy clothes, made a 7-in. incision over the heart, and plunged his hand in to massage the stilled organ. A nurse administered oxygen. Drs...
Last week, in Columbus' University Hospital, Gene Snyder, 25, a victim of rheumatoid arthritis, who already had a partial artificial joint (made of steel) in his right hip, was laid out on his right side and anesthetized. Surgeon Wilson made a long incision clear down to the bone, and...
Easier said than done. His first 3-ft. incision along the woman's abdomen was not enough. He had to make a T-shaped incision and fold back huge flaps of abdominal wall. Then he was able to roll out the tumor-a purplish, egg-shaped mass almost 3...
"I'm a goner," said President Anastasio Somoza to U.S. Ambassador Thomas Whelan the night Somoza was shot down by a 27-year-old gunman (TIME, Oct. 1). "They got me this time, Tommy," he added. Rushed from Nicaragua to the Canal Zone, the 60-year-old strongman withstood...
In 1873 the Lancet touched off another major debate by charging that London Surgeon Sir Henry Thompson had caused the death of exiled Emperor Napoleon III by operating on him for a bladder stone by lithotrity (penetration into the urethra by a pair of forceps) instead of lithotomy (incision into...