Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young surgeons, say Drs. Cutler and Zollinger, may not recognize the dangers in disturbing the mosaic of living cells, because they are usually taught anatomy and pathology on "tough, dead, chemically fixed tissues." Older surgeons may be "irked by the constant emphasis on gentleness." But each cell in an operation must be protected "with exquisite care." With "careful hemostasis [damming of blood] and gentleness to tissues, an operative procedure lasting as long as four or five hours [leaves] the patient in better condition . . . than a similar procedure performed in thirty minutes...
...operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection, for the anesthetic needle may pick up cancerous cells and start the "seeding" of tumors, or it may injure healthy cells and make them prey for dangerous bacteria already lodging in the body...
Smith's Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow (acting President) : "Perhaps some of you are wishing at this moment that you might offer personal service over there. ... It is not your part. Your duty is to study hard, to try to understand ... to stretch your minds ... so that you may carry away from this place some judgment and perhaps a little wisdom for the world after...
University of Texas' Homer Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...
...Watch and wait; Junior may drink by himself. (This...