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Dr. Beck told his colleagues at Philadelphia that a patient who came to him for an operation to relieve hardening of a coronary artery had a 50-50 chance to survive. Taking the chance, Surgeon Beck opened the man's chest, detached a length of pectoral muscle, made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Beck promised to cut down his 50% operative mortality. He has also developed roundabout circulation in a man's heart by putting some pulverized beef bone in the pericardial cavity. This irritated the pericardium, caused it to cleave to the heart muscle. The blood vessels, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeons' College | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Jenny Hanivers are made from the dried carcasses of small rays and skates. In natural state the underside of a ray's head slightly resembles a monstrous human face with nostrils that seem to be eyes and a wide, toothed mouth. The human effect is heightened when beads are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Jenny Hanivers | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Scientists call the shark Isuris, most laymen call it "mackerel shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sharks by Grey | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prowess in Action | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

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