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...inch gash in his upper left arm. Dr. Head, a robust, 42-year-old neurologist, was no masochist. He wanted to learn the connection between nerves and pain. The surgeon severed two nerves in Dr. Head's arm, flexed it at the elbow, put it up in a splint, and left his hand free for testing...
...Rudolph Matas of New Orleans went their first annual Distinguished Service Medal, given for "meritorious service in the science and art of medicine." Stout, little Dr. Matas, 1895-1927 Tulane professor of surgery, was one of the world's first doctors to use local anesthetics. He invented a splint for broken jaws and aluminum binders for bulging arteries. He discovered safe ways of operating in cavities of the chest and sure ways of testing for blocked circulation in fingers and toes. Probably his boldest procedure (the Matas Operation) is to slit the paper-thin wall of an artery which...
This week Mr. McMahon seemed to be getting on remarkably well. Clover Splint Coal Company withdrew its plea of not guilty and entered a plea of nolo contendere (admitting no guilt but declining to make a defense...
Breaking her collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, able horsewoman, was rushed to a hospital. Hour later she was back again with her arm in a steel splint, remarked: "It would be silly to miss the rest of the show...
Although his arm is in an "aeroplane splint," which holds it at an angle over his head, and allows no movement of his shoulder or right side, and despite the prospect of from four to six weeks more flat on his back, he is in good spirits, and was able to see a funny side to his accident...