Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched by the family kitten, but Dr. Snyder concluded that the lump in his neck was his thymus gland, swollen by a cat-scratch infection that had probably penetrated the skin through a rash. The baby got better after penicillin treatment...
...taking regular meals. He now feeds himself with his left hand. After five days, his temperature was normal, and the wound showed no sign of infection. But this meant no respite. Last week the plastic surgeons took Ev back to the operating room, pared big patches of half-thickness skin from his right thigh, and grafted the patches onto the raw areas near his armpit...
...gangrene by clearing both sides of the wound site of all tissue, mostly muscle, that is crushed or deprived of its blood supply. In this case, they delayed because it was more urgent to restore the circulation promptly. At last, they stitched together four major muscles and as much skin as was left around the fracture. It was not enough, but the rest of that job had to wait...
...trunk and right arm in a cast that held the arm in a bent position, as though to ward off a blow. Still anesthetized, the boy was wheeled to a second operating theater. There, surgeons straightened out his battered left hand and sewed up its skin wounds. Ev Knowles received four more pints of blood during the multiple operations, which lasted eight hours...
Closer in to his capsule, though, Carpenter did solve a mystery: he satisfied himself that he had identified the glowing, drifting objects that intrigued both Glenn and Soviet Cosmonaut Titov. Space fireflies, Carpenter concluded, are only particles (presumably flecks of paint) from the capsule's skin. He proved the point by producing flocks of bright floating specks every time he rapped hard on his capsule's wall...