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Word: knifeless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe that will swim through the arterial labyrinth and tell the neurologist what he needs to know. At Harvard, surgeons practice knifeless surgery with a proton gun that destroys overactive tissue deep inside the skull. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, ophthalmic surgeons turn patients upside down to let gravity help them in repositioning a detached retina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Plight of the U.S. Patient | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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