Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inner regions of the heart will no longer be sacred, for medical science has invented a "cardioscope" enabling physicians to see inside the beating heart. To Dr. Duff S. Allen, a young surgical assistant at Washington University, belongs the honor of having perfected the instrument. By making a slight incision directly over the heart, and gazing through what appears to be a combination of flashlight and microscope, he can distinctly see the working of the heart valves...
...oxygen, with serum, and by other more technical means, until the number of deaths recorded from each has become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation of the idea of other inventions dealing with surgery of the chest. The cardiograph--an instrument for recording heart-beats; electric photography, photographic magnifying of stethoscopic sounds, and the comparatively recent development of adrenalin have all helped in the medical warfare for the saving of mortal hearts, so that now this last "disease of civilization" seems succumbing to the attacks of science...
...cardioscope, an instrument which makes it possible to see inside a beating heart, has been perfected by Dr. Duff S. Allen, a young surgical assistant at Washington University, St. Louis, who reported his work at the annual meeting of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, Chicago...
...dead-wood of the centuries would be cleared away within the span of a single generation. But this result will be accomplished only provided that the measure is considered in absolute good faith by both parties. In the present disturbed situation, it might become, all too easily an instrument for political abuse...
...tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died, was esteemed a wonder because he had a voice left at that age, although it had sunk to a high baritone. The tenor throat is a delicate instrument that survives few misfortunes, least of all that of time...