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...skin-grafting operation was a bloody business. Each new stitch to hold the big skin-patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
Said Plastic Surgeon Robert H. Ivy of Philadelphia, who was an Army surgeon in World War I: "Many times in the closure of a cut on the face, very coarse, deep sutures [stitches] including the skin and deeper tissues have been placed with a heavy needle. These later leave broad scars." (The proper method is to stitch the lower layer of a wound, then fasten the skin edges together with a fine thread...
...face, the first consideration is to make sure that there is a good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...
Rise in Demand. It was a stitch in time. No army is any better than its officers, and Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army faced with a demand for scores of thousands of officers. To officer the first outfits sent overseas other units were stripped. Training suffered...
Ether fumes eddied through the crowded wardroom. The patient grimaced. "More ether," said Lipes. Two hours and a half after the operation started, Lipes took the last catgut stitch. At that moment the ether gave...