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Last fortnight in The Lancet, Drs. Deanesly & Parkes reported the results of experiments made on the hunch. They anesthetized five immature male guinea pigs, made slits in their skins, pushed a disc-shaped ovarian hormone tablet, weighing from eight to 16 milligrams, into each slit, and stitched up the incision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Under the Skin | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Last week Barbara Stobie was delivered of this monstrosity. As an artist and photographers recorded the scene, Surgeon Clarence William Brunkow made a seven-inch incision from the tip of her breast bone past the left of her navel. Lying horizontally within her abdomen, between the top of her stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby's Baby | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

After five years' effort to synthesize a harmless, efficient local anesthetic, a Columbia University Research physiologist, Dr. Raymond Lester Osborne, in Science last week reported success. Ever since Dr. Carl Roller, an Austrian who now practises ophthalmology in Manhattan, discovered in 1884 that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epicaine | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Dr. Murray's operation for embolus is to cut until he can handle the affected artery at the site of the plugging. Above and below the embolus he applies soft rubber-covered clamps to the artery. Over the embolus "a longitudinal incision, 0.5 to 1 cm. long, is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Embolectomy | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Surgeon Erdmann got down to Dr. Brooks's liver. At that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor's Doctors | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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