Word: healing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were only making exploratory incisions, preparing the way. Certain of these cuts would be allowed to heal. In about a month there would be a second, final operation, and the prostate would be cut cleanly...
...Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were amputated. "Two months," was the answer. "Amputate," said...
...weirdly said "no church," sang on, swearing that before he would leave Rautendelein the sunken bell would ring again. The sunken bell did ring and by the hand of Magda who drowned herself to ring it. Too deep the crack was then for even Rautendelein to heal. He cursed her, left her, came back to her and died, while she went back to the old Nickelmann who had wanted her all along...
Surgery has yielded "brilliant" results in pulmonary tuberculosis according to Dr. William H. Thearle of Denver. Thoracoplasty, an operation which consists in cutting away part of the ribs, allowing the diseased lung to collapse and be at rest, giving it a chance to heal, and stopping the spread of the disease, has been employed in 148 cases during the last seven years. Forty one per cent were cured, 33% improved...
...granite cutters of Aberdeen, the miners of South Africa and Great Britain have surrendered their quota to death by silicosis. These places have their mines and quarries, New York has its blasted tunnels. The growth of fibres around the cell "clumps" is in the nature of a healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four...