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...young man on the operating table, close to death, got a local anesthetic. Dr. Finestone did a rib section and cut through the pericardial sac. As the blood spurted out of the right ventricle of the young man's wounded heart, an assistant surgeon caught it in sterile cups and sponges, and they put the blood back in the patient's body by transfusion. Dr. Finestone held the heart in his hand and stitched it up with long silk stitches. It jumped, he said, "like a fish out of water...
...mean regionalist himself, chesty, 33-year-old Reader Derleth, who writes 500,000 words a year, has only 40-odd volumes to go before completing his Sac Prairie Saga in progress...
...dialect of the Algonquin tongue Sac and Fox Indians (in Iowa...
...southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough the whole ring of emplacements was useless; the British, with movable guns, stayed...
...gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...