Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy section of Long Island City. They were trailed by a carload of reporters, for the word had gone out that the elderly gentlemen...
...longer feels like Christ over Lazarus when he makes a dead patient's heart beat again. An injection of adrenalin or a tickle with the electrical pacemaker may do the trick. Or, if the patient is on the operating table with his abdomen or chest open, the surgeon may massage the heart into motion. Nonethe-less this stale medical story still looks like news and is printed, often on front pages a dozen times a year for the bench of those who cannot remember what they read...
Typhus, more than cold or Russian bullets, made Napoleon retreat from Moscow. Cold, hungry soldiers lay in their own filth on rotten straw. According to de Kirckhoff, a corps surgeon, despairing men ate leather and even human flesh...
Corset Patterns, At Georgia's Warm Springs Surgeon Michael Hoke invented a clever pattern for the steel-framed corsets which some victims of infantile paralysis wear to keep their spines from growing crooked. Dr. Hoke molds strips of lead to the patient's body, then fashions steel corset "bones"' to duplicate the lead patterns exactly...
...prevent ventricular fibrillation and sure death, Drs. Nahum and Hoff advise elimination of poisons, physical disturbances and excitements; use of barbiturates or other drugs which reduce the heart's activity; administration of oxygen. In extremity, a surgeon might cut the nerves which cause the adrenal glands to excrete their exciting adrenalin. But drugstores now carry acetylcholine, the vagus hormone, with which a desperate doctor can often quiet ventricular fibrillation, set the heart pulsating smoothly again...