Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation...
...would not stop until the Jap was thrown back or until he had the whole eastern railroad system in his hands. With it would go more than the supply system for eastern Free China. With it would go many of the airdromes prepared by Chiang Kai-shek and his patient coolies for the blow at Japan that is yet to come...
...Chinese last week was doing his quiet bit to enlighten Manhattanites on a subject of great current interest to China-India. C. T. Loo, noted dealer and connoisseur, after a quarter-century of patient collecting, opened a display of "The Sculpture of Greater India." The people who went to contemplate his 69 hard-won pieces in stone and bronze were mainly Mr. Loo's friends-museum curators, students, artists. While the learned visitors took their tea, found a corner for sketching, or discussed the possible influence of Buddha upon Christ, the gods of ancient India-Brahma, Siva, Vishnu, Buddha...
...hammer-handed slug is the London bobby. No policeman in the world is more efficient, more widely respected for politeness and patience. Last week the patient politeness of eight bobbies assigned to the Japanese Embassy staff was strained nearly to the breaking point...
...golfer in a sand trap can usually give plenty of reasons for his being there. Last week the U.S. Golf Association gave him another: patriotism. Adopting the suggestion of Chicago's Fred B. Snite, father of the famed Iron Lung patient, the U.S.G.A. recommended that every U.S. golf club designate one of its traps a "U.S.O. trap." Every time a he-golfer lands there, he would be fined 25? (for she-golfers, 10?)-the proceeds to be turned over to the United Service Organizations...