Word: scalpeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the assembled thousands included many of the deftest-fingered scalpel wielders and gut tiers in the U.S., and such honored elder surgeons as New Orleans' Alton Ochsner and St. Louis' Evarts Graham, there was none among them who towered above his fellows as did Baltimore's William Stewart Halsted half a century ago, or Halsted's pupil, Harvey Gushing, a generation later. The reason lies not in a decline in the caliber of surgeons, but in a change in the nature of surgery itself...
...bumbling Yard Inspector, Sim is called in to investigate two hospital deaths. Up to the point where Sim first places his grimy handkerchief on the scalpel, all the actors have been scurrying around in deadly seriousness. After this, their poker faces are only foils for Sim's bluffing and frothing. Trevor Howard in particular, the master of the restrained emotions, tries to keep the mystery suitably sinister; but he is no match for Sim's buffoonery...
...Scalpel & Chisel...
...Scalpel! Sponge! In St. Louis, Maintenance Man Gus Smith sued the city for $25,000. claimed that while working at its Municipal Hospital he had 1) walked across a floor that looked like wood. 2) crashed through a painted glass ceiling. 3) broken both legs when he landed on a conference table surrounded by doctors...
Most of The Scalpel of Scotland Yard is about the trials at which Spilsbury gave evidence, including such famous shockers as the Crippen Case and the Brides in the Baths.* The rest of it is a polite autopsy on Spilsbury himself, an attempted reconstruction of a life that was devoted almost exclusively to death...