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Died. Dr. Horace G. Smithy, 34, the surgeon who performed a daring heart operation (TIME, Feb. 16) to remove rheumatic fever scar tissue; of the same heart condition and other ailments, before he could finish training other surgeons in the technique that might have saved his own life; in Charleston...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...
Hensch and Baker walked around the plane to look at a spot where they had collided with a bird above the clouds. They found no scar. Baker walked over to make his routine report to intelligence officers. Hensch called after him: "Better tell them the Russians sent a bird after...
When a miner breathes finely divided silica (quartz), the sharp microscopic particles, lodge in the little sacs at the ends of the air tubes in his lungs. The irritation forms scar tissue, whose stiffness keeps the sacs from collapsing, as they normally do, to expel air from the lungs. Breathing becomes harder & harder until the miner has to use all his strength merely to keep his blood oxygenated. Bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, often add to his misery...
...pressed for time, and I know that people who are about to be executed always indulge in talking to the minister." At this the maddened courtroom audience, broke into howls of "Schweinehund!", and surged forward towards Kappler's bench. A muscle danced in his jaw and the saber scar on his left cheek blazed crimson as carabinieri forced the crowd back...