Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a surgeon performs an operation to remove gallstones, one of the most important things is to get them all out. If he leaves any behind, it may mean another operation...
...with difficulty and wears dark glasses to guard her own eyes from glare. Twenty-six years ago she was stricken with glaucoma, an eye disease that often causes blindness. While waiting for her eyes to heal after an operation she began to wonder what she could do for her surgeon, the late Dr. William Holland Wilmer. She raised nearly $5,000,000 among his patients to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Four years ago a group of Manhattan eye surgeons asked her to help start the eye bank. She is now executive director...
Doctors have hesitated to use the plumber's method because they feared that peeling off the inner lining (endothelium), along with the dead tissue, calcium and fatlike substances, might lead to dangerous clotting. A team of five French doctors, headed by Dr. Louis Bazy, chief surgeon of Paris' St. Louis Hospital, has now apparently learned the trick. Dr. Bazy's team splits open the artery (in extreme cases for as much as two feet), scrapes out the stoppage, sews it up again. In a few minutes nature deposits white corpuscles along the wall of the scraped...
Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...
Privies & Meters. To Salvadora's father, Dr. Luis Henri Debayle, Nicaragua's top surgeon, the grandnephew of a celebrated bandit seemed a poor prospect for a son-in-law. But Salvadorita loved Tacho. Soon after their return to Nicaragua in 1919 they were married...