Word: vitallium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their method is simple, requiring only a piece of vein and a few bits of bloodvessel-sized vitallium tubing. (Vitallium is the non-irritating surgical alloy.) Given an artery with a section missing or damaged, the doctors snip each end neatly, then cut a section of one of the patient's own veins for a patch. (Loss of a vein is not dangerous, as other veins readily take over its work...
...piece of vitallium tubing shorter than the vein section is slipped over it and the vein ends turned back over the tube like cuffs. One artery end is then slipped over each end of the cuffed tube. Result: the insides of vein and artery heal together in a permanent natural weld. The vitallium can be left in place forever...
...restore contours of a nose or ear, the best material is cartilage from the breastbone. Living or preserved cartilage can be used, cut to shape or even diced. Best material for filling out bones in the face is the porous bone from the top of the hip. Tantalum or vitallium plates serve for skull injuries...