Word: socket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have married, have two children. Gowan is strictly on the wagon, but doubts that he is the father of the elder child. Temple's case is worse. Secretly she yearns for the bad old days, licks the memory of evil as a tongue searches a newly empty tooth-socket. She gets her chance to sin again when Red's younger brother Pete shows up to blackmail her with a packet of her own racy love letters to Red. Staring at Temple, Pete soon forgets about money, and Temple almost forgets about honor and duty, until her Negro maid...
...cabin. She was conscious. He gave her a sedative and scrubbed up while his instruments boiled on the wood stove. Two men held gas lanterns and two flashlights while he operated. It was a bad fracture: many pieces of bone, including a large part of the eye socket, were pressed in on the brain...
This is a radical operation, difficult even when performed by highly skilled specialists. So Freeman and Watts tried something simpler: the transorbital lobotomy, so called because the instrument is inserted through the eye socket. Freeman reports good results in 47% of 316 cases, fair results in 23%, poor in 28% (deaths...
...Slattery had read scientific reports telling how such injured and dislocated teeth could be taken out and successfully reimplanted in their own sockets, and had done it once himself. He pulled the embedded tooth, took out the dead nerve, plugged the base of the tooth with porcelain to prevent discoloration. Thereafter, he departed from standard practice in two ways. Instead of sterilizing the tooth with alcohol (which he feared might injure the blood clot necessary to hold the tooth in place), Dr. Slattery used aureomycin. Instead of ramming the tooth back into place by force (which he feared might injure...
Most often applied externally to the neck, it electrically imposes its own breathing pattern on the nerves controlling the diaphragm. The machine can be plugged into any household socket and is light enough to be carried right to the bedside of a patient...