Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus, long noted as the place where O. Henry blossomed as a writer,*and the scene of a 1930 fire that killed 320 inmates, won favorable attention not long ago for the prisoners' willingness to volunteer for tularemia (rabbit fever) experiments and to donate skin for victims of severe burns...
...Like a Movie." Gradually he began to pass the word along that there was a shelter in the Church of Mater Dei, but the suspicious scugnizzi gave it a wide berth. Late one winter night he watched sadly as a group of three scugnizzi stripped a drunk to the skin, then he plodded off, muttering aloud: "I'm going to Mater Dei to get out of the cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last...
...bank's operations worse than useless. At 2:05 p.m., Dr. Hyatt, two assistant surgeons, a nurse and five specially trained medical corpsmen began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic bone. Each item was measured, labeled and prepared for storage. At 3:30 a.m. the operations ended, and the tissue bank's doors-imprinted with...
Infinite pains had been taken to leave no conspicuous marks on the sailors' bodies (no skin is ever taken from the face or neck). The bodies were shipped back to home-town undertakers...
...freeze-dried (by a half-dozen methods), an attendant made fresh entries on a wall board in Dr. Hyatt's office, to expand the bank's current inventory to: 33 cortical strips, eight infant long bones, four straight pieces of chest artery, 39,354 sq. cm. of skin. The tissue bank will not take material from victims of infectious disease or cancer, has to rely mainly on victims of heart attacks and accidents. In five years it has taken material from 104 individuals, benefited about 1,000 patients of 150 military and civilian surgeons across...