Word: mastoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...
...most delicate of all operations is that for mastoid. It is especially difficult and dangerous when the patient is very young. The slightest inaccuracy on the part of the surgeon will let his scalpel pierce the meninges and brain, but the parents of the 16-month-old child that lay on the operating table of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital one night last week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside...
...Mastoids. Dr. Samuel J. Kopetzky, New York, told how infection of the mastoid region, behind the ear, following influenza, sore throat, pneumonia or colds, may result in a general infection of the whole body...