Word: luise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In a little white-walled infirmary under the stands last week, Don Luis carefully snipped off Bienvenida's tight white-and-gold costume, ordered him wheeled into the operating room. There, with two assisting surgeons, he assessed the damage: four broken ribs, possibly a broken fibula (calf bone), a...
Small Scalpels. No man living knows more about cornadas (horn wounds) than Don Luis Gim& #233;nez Guinea. He has written the book, classifying them according to the placement and type of horn-blunt or sharp, wide or narrow-spaced, projecting high or forward. Among the worst are wounds caused...
With the bleeding Bienvenida, Surgeon Giménez Guinea wasted no time on such trivia as ribs, tackled immediately the ear-to-armpit wound that had exposed nerves and arteries in the neck. He had no time to prepare the patient for surgery; that is a luxury Giménez...
Special Techniques. The matador hovered near death, then began to gain strength slowly. This week Bienvenida was recovering. Like many of the 2,500 bullfighters, from the lowliest peones to the top matadors, whom Don Luis has treated, Bienvenida felt that no other surgeon could have saved his life.
Giménez Guinea has saved many a seemingly hopeless case when matadors have been gored in the groin, where the horn often severs the femoral artery-the kind of wound that killed the great Manolete in 1947 in Linares, far from Don Luis's aid. To stanch the...