Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stove on a backyard dump. A doctor, checking radium needles at the hospital, noticed that the tip of the one used on Joke (it had already been condemned because of oxidation at the junction of head and shaft) was missing. When it could not be found in the treatment room, out went the alarm...
...Barn. Until the 1930s, the stock figure of the veterinarian in U.S. life was the horse doctor who operated, with a heavy harness to restrain his unanesthetized victim, in any handy barn. He would handle anything from a Chihuahua to a Percheron, prescribed more worm medicine than any other treatment. Today's vets usually have a couple of years of college, a four-year V.M. course, and must pass a state licensing examination. Their number has nearly doubled (to 19,257) in 20 years. Though a great majority (perhaps 85%) still work mostly on livestock-swine, sheep, cattle, horses...
...also soundproofed, and the building is air-conditioned. The prevailing odor is of strong surgical soap. The lab runs an impressive variety of tests like those for any human patient: urinalysis ($5), complete blood count ($5), vaginal smears (three for $10). X rays are used for both diagnosis and treatment. The operating room is a scale model of any good hospital o.r., with sterilizers, surgical instruments, anesthesia gear and oxygen supply. One permanent staff member lives in a sheltered outdoor kennel. A young male greyhound, he is the resident blood bank, can give a pint every two weeks...
What had happened was no coincidence but just what the doctor had planned. Finding that conventional (largely wait-and-see) treatment for a year and a half did nothing to restore Dougherty's sight, Resident Surgeon Joseph Lamar Mays, 33, decided on a rare and ingenious operation developed in Russia and China, seldom done previously in the U.S. The idea: to take one of Dougherty's salivary glands (there are three on each side) and reroute it so that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour...
Helen Maysey was a sickly baby. She had a stubborn anemia that did not respond to treatment with iron and vitamins. By the time she was three, doctors found her spleen enlarged, decided that this versatile organ, which both makes and destroys blood cells, was overdoing the destructive part of its job. Surgeons took out her spleen. That gave only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years...