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After the operation the unlucky patient continued to starve. His room was kept dark, and no one approached the bed except when absolutely necessary for fear of shaking it, causing an artery or vein to become untied-"how, I do not know...
...boys would trample all over the grass getting to his ship to talk about the flight. If Paddy had shot down a plane he would talk last, his brogue broadening with excitement and his fingers curved back toward his arm making plane motions to illustrate the fight and a vein under his temple beating as if it had a separate heart. He was not very clear about what he was fighting for, except that he loved life and the air and comradeship in danger. But if anybody could have told him truly that it was for a peace that would...
When a large piece of artery has been torn away, a nearby vein can be tied off and a piece cut out for a patch. (Smaller, "collateral veins" can always take up the circulation of the large ones.) Even when it is impossible to repair an artery, Dr. Pratt continued, amputation is still not inevitable, for, like a vein, an artery can be ligated (tied off from circulation). There is small danger of gangrene if the accompanying vein is also ligated...
...Tobruk? In his humble vein, Winston Churchill confirmed the general diagnosis that Tobruk had fallen because the German High Command outsmarted the British, and because German equipment was better (TIME, July 6)-partly excusing it on the ground that quick manufacturing for British Isles defenses had put the premium in British material on quantity rather than quality. Many were his revelations, intentional or otherwise, of British military naivete...
When the doctors have a patient with a gangrenous foot or strangulated hernia (protruding loop of gut), they wheel him into an operating room, inject fluorescein, a reddish dye, into the vein of his arm. Then they 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...