Word: sara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors gave him plenty of advice about what not to eat, too little about what he should eat. This led to a sorry circle: "Eating became a worry, and worry generates hydrochloric acid, and hydrochloric acid induces ulcers." After his "third or fourth ulcer," he took dinner with Dr. Sara Jordan of Boston's Lahey Clinic, picked a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Jordan suggested meringue glac...
Four hours later, Dr. Shultz found Sara lying on a blanket on a table in a log cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
...Shultz cleaned the wound and took out seven fragments. With the pressure off her brain, Sara quieted down. Says Dr. Shultz: "She was a plucky young'un. Once when she was screaming and we tried to quiet her, she said: 'I wouldn't cry so, if you didn't hurt me.'" Even so, one man had to hold her legs and another her head. Dr. Shultz cleaned the bone fragments and put them back, sewed up the wound and gave Sara 250 cc of plasma. A mattress was slipped between Sara and the table...
Just 24 hours after the first call from Golden Trout, Sara Sharr was put to bed in Lone Pine's hospital and given tetanus and penicillin shots. Last week, though her right eye was still closed, she was cheerful and well on the way to recovery...
After he got Sara Sharr to bed, and was eating dinner, Dr. Shultz got another emergency call: a woman, bleeding profusely from a severe cut, was being flown out of the mountains...