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...bleeding vessel. Next, remove blood clots (which form in about 50% of the cases) with forceps or a corkscrew of silver wire. Then, if no more than two inches of artery have been lost, the torn arterial ends can be stitched together with a hairlike needle and fine silk. The needle must not enter the tender inner lining of the artery, but only its tough coat. After the artery is joined, a strip of nearby muscle can be wrapped around the suture to reinforce...
...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...
This became apparent last week in Manhattan, whither had swarmed retail-clothes buyers from 48 States to see the first collection of fashions wholly controlled by war needs. WPB, fashion's new dictator, had shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
Stems. In Washington, Mrs. Bruce Baird, wife of a banker, got the better of the silk shortage. Whenever a stocking went to pieces she embroidered a flower on the hole, a stem down...