Word: josep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raids, doctors found that victims whose legs had been pinned under timbers or masonry for several hours sometimes died mysteriously of kidney failure. The puzzled doctors called this strange death "crush syndrome." To find out what a crushed leg had to do with the kidneys, Spanish-born Dr. Josep Trueta and four co-workers at Oxford's Nuffield Institute for Medical Research* began some blood-circulation experiments on rabbits...
...Channel with the Nazis only a few jumps behind, hard-pressed, sweating surgeons had to have some new and faster technique of treating wounds. Fortunately, most of them had read last winter the revolutionary work on wound surgery written after the small-scale war in Spain by brilliant Dr. Josep Trueta of Barcelona, now in England (TIME, Jan. 15). In treating 1,073 projectile fractures, Surgeon Trueta obtained wholly satisfactory results in 976 cases and there were only six deaths. His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips...
...fathered this necessitous technique was Dr. Josep Trueta, onetime head of the department of surgery at Barcelona's General Hospital of Satalunya, now in London. Last fortnight the British Medical Journal reprinted an address which Dr. Trueta made before the Royal Society of Medicine. Society members found Dr. Trueta's methods "iconoclastic," "revolutionary," "momentous." All agreed that "closed plaster casts" such as his might prove to be "the methods of surgical election" in World...