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...most delicate of all operations is that for mastoid. It is especially difficult and dangerous when the patient is very young. The slightest inaccuracy on the part of the surgeon will let his scalpel pierce the meninges and brain, but the parents of the 16-month-old child that lay on the operating table of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital one night last week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside...
...Bradford is now 78. five years older than Dr. Lorenz. They studied the correction of congenital hip malformation together. Bradford worked out a technique with the scalpel. Lorenz preferred to use his muscles. Dr. Bradford has been Dean since 1912 and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery since 1903. In 1895 he issued his expertise on Orthopedic Surgery an authoritative' text...
...Doctor's 50th birthday. The thousands congratulating him were chiefly medical colleagues and onetime patients, whose fondness and admiration were not occasioned by Dr. Hybbinette's superlative surgical skill and his magnetic personality alone. Nor had he performed some new miracle with his keen scalpel. But one and all praised him for a habit that he has, a talented habit uncommon among surgeons. Dr. Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize by exercising it competitively, and it is his habit to enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change...
...stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...
Author Gorky, Russian realist, feels beneath the surface of an episode for its obscure, its real causes. To him, reason is no sinew flexing and supporting life, but a scalpel for cutting into it. That he makes his most satisfactory discoveries among abnormal patients is not surprising in a man who experimented on himself as a boy by lying beneath freight trains...