Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Technique. First Dr. Smithy designed a new valvulotome, an instrument for cutting valves. Essentially, it is a tube containing a small lancet with a special biting end ; with it he hoped to cut out the scar tissue that forms on the heart valves of many rheumatic fever victims, and blocks their action. Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty...
...health was better than last year (though his legs gave him some trouble), and his mind still seemed as cold a lancet as ever probed an infection. He wrote recently: "Parliament men . . . keep declaring that the British parliamentary system is one of the greatest blessings British political genius has given the world; and the world has taken it at its self-valuation . . . always with the same result: political students . . . exposing such frightful social evils . . . Parliament ignoring them as long as possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women...
...year-old, wrote Dr. McCluskie in the medical journal Lancet, twelve hours at night and a 2½-hour morning nap is sleep enough. A three-year-old needs only twelve hours, including nap; a five-year-old, eleven hours; an eleven-year-old, ten hours. A half-hour variation from this schedule, warned the doctor, may induce masturbation, surreptitious reading in bed, restlessness and inability to concentrate in school...
Cried an indignant mother in the next issue of the Lancet: "I should also like to know how Dr. McCluskie deals with the infant who . . . when propped up in a pram . . . and enjoined to stay awake . . . proceeds to fall asleep in the most uncomfortable position possible, in spite of having slept 14 hours the previous night and three hours that same morning...
...peripatetic correspondent" of the staid British medical paper, The Lancet, contributed to the current issue a clinical report on an unclinical subject: lying in bed. Said...