Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors in Washington last week made surgical history when they slipped an ingenious and incredibly small ultra sound probe inside a patient's eyeball for the first time and located a sliver of brass. Once found, the sliver was instantly removed, and James Cassiday, 11, was assured that he will regain substantial vision in his damaged left...
...heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe to locate foreign bodies in the eye within a millimeter. (X rays have an error range of three to four millimeters, which is considered to be too wide for an eye surgeon...
...phone call brought the happy news that Dr. Bronson's gadget was ready for its first trial on a human patient. The engineering part of the job had been done by Philadelphia's Smith Kline Instrument Co.; Surgeon Bronson had already tried their Ekoline-20 ultrasonic probe successfully in the eyes of cats and in surgically removed human eyes. Dr. Bronson rushed to Washington to join Dr. Passmore in the precedent-making operation...
...study a developing fetus in utero reacting to drugs passed through its mother's bloodstream? Last week such research was given a hopeful boost when the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $48,500 contract to the Marquardt Corp., of Van Nuys, Calif., to probe the effects of drugs on embryonic opossums...
...Archives of General Psychiatry, three psychiatrists probe the personalities of the beater and the beaten. One of their findings: those who fight together and stay together do so because each needs the other to balance out his own mental quirks...