Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
Progress in Surgery. Radical splanchnicectomy (removal of long segments of the nerves which serve the viscera) is a lifesaver for certain types of high-blood-pressure patients. Dr. Reginald Smithwick of Boston has now perfected the technique so that deaths from the operation are rare. Some of his patients are in normal health six years after operation...
Veronica loved the Count "with the harmonious turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
...wars of the 20th Century have twice balked quatercentenary celebrations of Vesalius (born in 1514) and his book. But, war or no war, the Medical Library Association has now printed a Vesalius Number of its Bulletin. The majestic, often astounding full-page delineations of skeletons, muscles, veins and viscera found in the Fabrica* are generally attributed to Jan van Calcar, Flemish pupil of Titian. But Andreas Vesalius, to a certain extent an unscrupulous self-promoter, brought his book out with no credit to his collaborator...
...Sensitivity of the eye, like that of other sense organs, decreases with distention of the viscera. "It is important in responsible reconnaissance operations that the visceral organs of the abdomen and the pelvis should not be overcongested...