Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes well, the fuel burns evenly, acts as an insulator to protect the vulnerable metal casing from the searing heat of its flame. As the fuel is consumed, the cavity becomes nearly cylindrical, so when the flame reaches the outside wall not enough fuel is left to soften the metal. A well-made solid-fuel rocket engine can be touched with bare fingers just after firing on the test stand...
Simple & Safe. Last week Drs. Dotter and Gensini told the Radiological Society of North America that steel-string and steel-spring techniques can be readily used to guide tubes into the left side of the heart itself-into the left ventricle, which pumps fresh blood to the entire body.* Pioneered in Sweden and France, the method has been adopted by Dr. Dotter in the hope of replacing techniques that, says he, were neither "simple, safe, nor reliable...
...housewife's case, polyethylene tubing is slipped over the steel spring. But in her case, the doctors did not go beyond the aorta. Now they go around the aorta's arch (see diagram) to its end at the aortic valve-the blood's exit from the left ventricle...
Admittedly crusaders for what the profession calls "left ventriculography," Drs. Dotter and Gensini believe that the technique is safe enough to be used in a physician's office. Some cardiologists believe it still advisable to have the patient in a hospital. But they agree that if experience proves the method safe, it will be a great advance over punching a big needle through the chest wall and into the heart itself to get inside the left ventricle...
...hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left" kidney from Phillip Culpepper's right side...