Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the marriage. Jack's wartime injury had required a spinal operation, but the bones were not set properly. In 1954 his back began giving trouble, and by fall he was hobbling about on crutches. In October he entered Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, where a metal plate was set into his spine. Twice in three months, his condition was so grave that his family was called to his bedside. Just before Christmas, he had recovered to the extent of flying, supine on a stretcher, to his father's Palm Beach home-where, to cure black...
...arcane art call it, refers to vibrations above the limit of human hearing (about 20,000 cycles per second*) In industry ultrasound waves are used to precipitate carbon and sulphur from chimney exhausts, abating the smoke nuisance and recapturing useful materials, and for testing big metal components such as locomotive axles for flaws. In dentistry there is the ultrasonic drill. In medicine a few enthusiasts have reported good results with ultrasound in arthritis, neuritis, muscle spasm and athletic injuries. It will break up gallstones or kidney stones in an animal's body, and some physicians hope soon...
...Meyers removed a piece of the skull, four by five inches. Ultrasound cannot be transmitted through bone because on meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed (ultrasound is transmitted best through a liquid medium...
They discovered that below-normal concentration of zinc in the blood of cirrhosis patients was coupled with excessive excretion of zinc in the urine. This, in turn, seriously depleted the body's stores of the trace metal...
...researchers added about 1/1000 of an ounce of zinc daily to the diet of cirrhosis patients, and noted that liver function improved within two days to four months. In addition, the amount of the metal excreted from the body was reduced...