Word: buttocks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Some of the wounds they deal with: "One buttock is lacerated; bleeding has stopped, but he is in a horrible mess . . . There is a hole above the temple as big as an apple. His closed eyes bulge under blue lids; his puffy face is green. He has torn away the bandage, his fingers pluck at his curly black hair that is clotted with blood and dirt, they pluck at the rim of the wound. His torn brain pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams...
...Park of the New York Health Department. Thirty cubic centimetres of blood are drawn from the elbow of a person who has had measles, are injected into the child. If the child is over five years old the dose is doubled Half of the blood goes into the right buttock, half into the left. Consequences: a mild, immunizing case of measles, an inability to sit comfortably for a few hours. Due to the prevalence of measles, some communities have, to a large extent, immunized themselves. But when they remain untouched over long periods of time they provide fertile fields...