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...darken the room, shine an ultraviolet lamp on the gangrenous area. The dye should make a circuit of the patient's blood stream in 20 seconds. If the gut or foot is still alive and receiving fresh blood, it will glow yellow green. Then it is safe to tuck the gut back in place, or stimulate circulation in the leg. But if the blood supply is choked, the limb or hernia remains dark, must be amputated at once. This test, the doctors said, should avoid unnecessary surgery, thus reduce the 50% mortality rate for strangulated hernia resections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Greenglow | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...everything. Children, we are given to understand, (except VALUABLE children or the one we had to attack to get this review in the beginning) are to be placed in the custody of Mrs. Vogel in the Union where there will doubtless be games and all sorts of goodies and tuck. What these games will be or what work the devil will find to occupy their busy little minds is justly no concern of either the authors or their numerous readers. The children, poor little dears, are stuck for the duration in the Union...

Author: By E.l. ., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

...Tuck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Scores upset Over Powerful Wli, Defeating Yale 52-48 As Seven Records Fall | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

According to Jaakko, the meet "was nip and tuck all the way, and we won because we had more fight and guts than the Yale boys. The whole team did a swell job," he said. But he warned of Dartmouth's power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Scores upset Over Powerful Wli, Defeating Yale 52-48 As Seven Records Fall | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...Snapped another: "Is Congressman Wilson going to come around and tuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Are You a Parasite? | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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