Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street Lawyer John Cye Cheasty (rhymes with hasty), 49, got a long-distance phone call from an acquaintance, Attorney Hyman Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability...
...Bailey, assistants now passed tourniquets like cotton shoelaces around both great veins but did not yet draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey made a small...
...child's heart or great vessels at birth (estimated annual U.S. incidence: 30,000 to 80,000 births). The great vessels (pulmonary artery and aorta) may be transposed, not harmful during fetal life but usually fatal soon after birth. Often there is a hole in the wall (septum) between the auricles or between the ventricles; there may be a hole permitting all four heart chambers to communicate. The aorta may override (straddle) both right and left ventricles. The neck (infundibulum) of the right ventricle may be narrowed, retarding movement of blood to the lungs. In the most famed...
Bailey made another contribution (January 1952) with an operation to close a hole in the wall between the auricles. The right auricle is bigger than it needs to be and is soft and pliable. So Bailey pressed the outer wall down over the septum, covering the hole in it, and joined the two together with a circular line of stitches. This made the right auricle into a doughnut-shaped chamber, with excellent results for the patient. Says Bailey with professional pride: "Technically, this is the best accomplishment I have to my credit, because it's so nearly perfect...
...deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece of fat (from the lining of the chest wall) to the sac when he closes...