Word: wound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Generations of doctors have talked about "shock," but they have never agreed on what they mean by it. Trying to be more precise, some have distinguished different types such as those caused by fright and cold, and a special kind of "wound shock." Others have gone on to such refinements as primary and secondary wound shock. All this, say two British physicians, is not good enough: wound shock must be even more carefully classified if the patient is to get the right treatment-and the wrong treatment may cost the patient his life...
...they say, "bad practice to delay transfusion." And a patient with a very large wound needs "much more than even a bold transfusion officer is inclined to give till he has learned for himself." The objective is to restore blood volume to at least 70% of normal and keep on going to 80% or more as a margin of safety...
...Crimson's Ron Berman went all out to take the 600, but wound up a tired fifth. Berman opened up on the gun lap, but was passed by the field in the last 80 yards. George Rhoden, top Olympic prospect, eventually won, going away from Mal Whitfield...
...Wounds, Jail, Escape. De Lattre made his early entrances with characteristic élan. Born like Clemenceau in the Vendée village of Mouilleron-en-Pareds, the village where De Lattre's 97-year-old father has been mayor for 40 years, De Lattre startled the neighbors early in life by leading cavalry charges across the garden astride his father's great Dane. As a young lieutenant of dragoons just out of St. Cyr in World War I, he earned his first wound and his first citation in a victorious hand-to-hand clash with two German Uhlans...
...shock, recognized the pajama-clad corpse of Dr. Masaryk. "I ordered one of the policemen to open the pajamas, and noticed all over the body traces of blows and scratches that appeared to be marks of violence. I saw in the nape of the neck the mark of a wound, probably made by a projectile of 7.65-mm. caliber. I thought: 'This is infamous, a bestial assassination...