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...thousands of years, repair surgery was limited to such obvious and available materials as wood, bone and ivory-which the body is usually quick to reject. Then doctors turned to refined metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...
...replacement for bone in 700,000 operations a year, surgeons will now have available a regular supply of calf bone, specially treated to remove all dangerous protein. E. R. Squibb & Sons this week announced the first U.S. Government approval of a sterilized calf bone, vacuum-packed, which can be stored at room temperature...
...weapons out of obsidian from a nearby volcano and cultivated barley, peas and primitive kinds of wheat. During the earlier centuries, they had no pottery but made graceful vessels of wood. The women carried makeup kits with polished obsidian mirrors, little baskets of rouge mixed with fat, and delicate bone sticks with thin tips still covered with green paint resembling the implements with which modern women apply mascara...
...crying "I can't stand it any longer!" Another lawyer became ill after visiting one of the gas chambers. All stood mutely at the edge of a shallow ditch where the Nazi SS troops had burned corpses on pyres when the crematoria were filled. Traces of ash and bone could still be seen. One German picked up a yellowed, half-burned page printed in Hebrew. It was the Kaddish-the prayer for the dead. One of the accused, former SS Dr. Franz Lucas, who is charged with making life-or-death selections of incoming prisoners, voluntarily accompanied the court...
...brain from a point below the right ear and had lodged in the left side of his skull. Dr. Frederick J. Gregory found that the boy's blindness was the result of bleeding inside the skull that caused pressure on the brain. When the hemorrhage was drained and bone fragments were removed, the boy recovered his sight. As for the bullet, it seemed best to leave it where...