Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famed Surgeon Alfred Blalock repaid part of the debt he owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
...This is not memory, as we usually use the word. No man can recall by voluntary effort such a wealth of detail . . . Many a patient has told me that the experience brought back by the electrode is much more real than remembering...
...already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts to guard civilians against the health hazards...
...over-optimistic news stories. One way to assure "full and balanced dispatches," suggested the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin D. Canham, would be to give newsmen full briefings on the next Vanguard test, but insist that they file their stories on a "hold-for-release" basis for use after the shoot. Straight from the launching pads came the best-aimed proposal of all. Said Lieut. Colonel Sid Spear, public relations officer at Patrick Air Force Base...
Ulen expects to use his regulars until he builds up a convincing lead, at which time he plans to put in many second stringers. The regular record-breaking 400-yard medley relay team of Bill Murray, Jim Stanley, John Hammond, and Ron Mischner will start in order to provide them with experience in a different pool...