Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style as the street clothes worn in the 19th century operating room. Even as the men-in-white of the 1930s have switched into the soft greys and greens and blues of today's surgical gowns, they have learned to do more than mere knife work: now they know what can go wrong both before and after an operation; they know how to take care of the whole patient. Their patients' lives are guarded by a vital fund of knowledge born after a long-overdue marriage of surgery and medicine...
...Hands? Men like Francis Moore, who are advancing the frontiers of biochemistry, expanding man's knowledge of his own metabolism, often seem to be peering even beyond the future of successful transplants to a time when they will know enough not to have to use a knife at all, to a time when they will realize the hyperbolic hope expressed by Harvey Gushing: "I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands...
...Knife in the Heart. Perhaps partly by chance, but largely because of Moore's drive and leadership, the great eruption of pioneering progress that is still continuing at the Brigham began soon after he took over as chief. Says one of its most articulate surgeons: "This little place, with only 284 beds, has made more contributions...
Coffee to Brew a Storm. It is probably only legend that he used chocolate, milk, and soot in his work; but he did use coffee to portray a brewing storm, deliberately broke pen points to achieve a wider line, pecked his paintings with a knife or dirtied them with fingers to give the impression of mist. He could paint or draw a female nude with bold and simple strokes; he could also produce magnificent colored swirls or fascinating gloops that would seem at home in many modern galleries. In his drawing of a hanged man, inspired partly by the execution...
...Call the wagons, Sergeant, I'm hungry," barked Bull. Next day he called out his police dogs. A 19-year-old Negro youth took a swipe at one with a clay pipe. The dog turned on the boy, and a crowd of Negroes surged forward, one carrying a knife. It took some 15 cops and their dogs to break up the melee...