Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million-a-year business in belts and wheels, inflatable suits, stretch straps, electronic and battery-operated devices, all designed to knock off pounds and inches with a minimum of effort on the part of the individual. For those who cannot raise even the minimum, there is the "wrapping" method, which asks nothing of the customer but time and money...
...most passive reduction plan yet developed occurs in the 112 Trim-A-Way figure-controlling salons across the U.S. The ingredients: strips of cloth and a secret chemical formula. The method: wrapping. The results: a guaranteed loss of two inches the first session, five by the fifth. The naked customer is marked and measured by a white-smocked technician, who then takes rolls of wet linen and firmly wraps her in oversize bandaging from the ankles up, pressing the fat upward. "It really is tight," reported an impressed client last week. "You wonder if gangrene...
...Movies. No one, however, did more to advance the cause of cardiac revascularization than Dr. F. Mason Sones Jr., a Cleveland cardiologist who in 1958 developed a method of mapping the cardiovascular system. Known by the jawbreaking name of cine coronary angiography, Sones' technique involved inserting a catheter, or thin piece of tubing, into an arm artery, guiding it up through the aorta and then squirting a radiopaque dye through it directly into the coronary arteries. The dye, which showed up clearly on motion picture X rays, made it possible for physicians to see with 90% accuracy exactly where...
...with this knowledge, Effler began performing Vineberg implants on patients suffering from angina pectoris, the crippling pain that signals insufficient blood supply to heart muscles. But other surgeons, still skeptical, concentrated on alternative approaches. Dr. Philip Sawyer of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn developed a method of using pressurized carbon dioxide gas to separate the inner and outer walls of an artery so that the fat adhering to the arterial lining could be more easily removed. Others experimented with widening clogged arteries by inserting gussets made from pieces of the patient's saphenous vein...
...second method is now widely established in Midwestern states, which are understandably worried about boat pollution. Their lakes and rivers are the major source of public water supplies. Chicago, for example, draws all its drinking water from Lake Michigan. By city ordinance in 1967. Chicago's boatmen were required to install holding tanks. Though boatmen sputtered, the regulations were reasonable. For one thing, Chicago provided sufficient pump-out stations. Thus no boatman need be caught with an overflowing holding tank and no place to go. For another, the plumbing for direct overboard venting could be left in place; thus...