Word: twines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rabbits and dogs, held the stumps close with forceps, dribbled the plasma over them from a pipette. Within two minutes, the plasma thickened to a firm jelly which stuck to the nerves and united the stumps. The jelly held for several days, long enough for the growing nerves to twine themselves on to the cut ends, like vines on a trellis. Healing took about ten days. Next step: use of the blood glue on torn human nerves...
Young Dr. Fabing found it impossible to talk to Eugene "because of the numerous small attacks which followed quickly one upon the other." The boy sat vacantly in his office winding spools of twine, fumbling with balls of tinfoil like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan...
Solving the problem in a flash, Vag wrapped all his baggage in his reversible, tied the bundle up neatly with a bit of twine, and handed it to the first redcap. When they had reached his car, Vag was seized with a fit of remorse, and graciously handed the colored boy fifteen cents. The horrified porter, finding his protests to be of no avail, summoned a guard with "Anti-tipping Assistant" on his cap, and between them they persuaded Vag to take back his extra five cents -- all in bright new pennies...