Word: thorax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick of cocking his head and firing wisecracks. He killed a Pure Book Bill with a line: "No woman was ever ruined by a book." Once, after listening to an interminable political speech about subways, he rose and cried: "For digging subways, sir, you need a pickax, not a thorax...
Private First Class Clarence W. Ross, stationed at Las Vegas Army Airfield, peeled off his uniform at the National A.A.U. Senior Weight-lifting Championships, displayed his Varga-boy thorax and other features (see cut), which added up to a title: 1945's Most Perfectly Developed...
...wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
...wrote: "Formerly I regarded the breathing thorax as a concertina bellows; my present work suggests that it resembles rather a cylinder and piston." But this reverse action of the lungs, he contends, is often missing in actual cases of injury or drowning. Reason: a patient's diaphragm is relaxed, flaccid. So Dr. Eve tried something else...
...amazing speed in operating attained through practice, great anatomical knowledge and never-ending study. There is no Erdmann operation-the doctor never concentrated exclusively on any one area. He would as soon cut off a leg as go after an appendix, is at home in the skull and the thorax. He teaches surgery, but has never been able to teach the Erdmann technique...