Word: viscera
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...procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate...
...curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...customs had different logics. Egyptians believed that the preservation of a man's identity required the preservation of the entire body. Because the viscera were difficult to preserve in situ the Egyptians lifted them out, put the heart and lungs in one jar.† the liver and bladder in another, the stomach and large intestine in a third, the small intestines in a fourth jar, all of which rested in the tomb with the embalmed body...
...cases where the lungs stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just as well...
...mass of tumor filled a sizable wash tub, close by the rude table on which the patient lay in her poor dwelling. The tapping of the sacculi and the bleeding caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy...