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Belly wounds have priority on the operating tables. Nurses call the belly-wound ward "Wangenstein Alley," after the inventor of a stomach suction device. In the olive-brown twilight, Wangenstein Alleys look like Spanish moss forests, with double rubber tubes descending from bottles high above each bed to the patients' noses and wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Shadows | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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