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Striking Rojas in the abdomen, the .45-cal. slug shattered the spleen, then ripped through the diaphragm, punctured the left ventricle-the heart's major pumping chamber-and entered the aorta, the main artery of the body. Like a log in a swift stream, it was carried by the blood round the aorta's bend, down the chest into the left iliac, a major blood vessel feeding the leg, where it finally came to rest. Had the bullet taken a different course-blocking an artery to the head, say-Rojas would have died immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Incredible Journey | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

After last night's rankling loss, the Crimson will once again try to bid adieu to disappointment and spleen when it scraps with Ivy League super-dreadnought Princeton tonight at Jadwin Gymnasium...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Quakers Nip Fired Up Crimson, 80-75 | 2/21/1976 | See Source »

...paid dearly for his raise. Two months after joining Life Science, the handsome Virginian noticed that his hands had begun to tremble. By last May he had developed pains in his chest and stomach. He was hospitalized in June, and has not worked since. He suffers from liver and spleen damage and has become sterile. The pupil of one of his eyes no longer reacts to light, and he has become abnormally sensitive to noise. There is also a possibility that Gilbert-married and the father of three children-could develop cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tragedy in Hopewell | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...Chesapeake Bay to fishermen. They are also keeping a watchful eye on the families of former Life Science employees; all of them were exposed to Kepone dust brought into their homes in the workers' clothing. Gilbert's wife Jan, 33, was recently hospitalized for liver and spleen problems, and although the Gilberts' daughter seems free of symptoms, the couple's two boys have both had minor eye problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tragedy in Hopewell | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...determine the correlation, Commoner and his Washington University colleagues tested 92 chemical compounds on strains of the common bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, developed by Ames. Each compound was made up in three different concentrations and mixed with preparations made from seven different rat tissues (liver, kidney, brain, stomach, lung, spleen and blood); each of the mixtures was then added to culture dishes containing the Salmonella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Commoner Cancer Screen | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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