Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶Bell Telephone Laboratories' transistorized, electronic larynx, for people who have had their voice boxes removed in surgery and have never mastered the difficult art of speaking with the gullet. Contoured to fit the hand and powered by tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of...
Doctors visiting the 200 exhibits in the District of Columbia Armory during last week's A.M.A. Clinical Meeting saw some promising new professional aids. Among them:
* The breakdown of injuries, with fatalities in parentheses: Softball, 703; football, 520-basketball, 504; water sports, 359 (76); winter sports, 154; baseball, 147; volleyball, 137-skeet shooting, 76 (1); hunting, 70 (2); hiking, 16-others, 536. The Air Force reported that 32,013 man-days were lost, at a cost...
¶A tough, porous surgical tape, made by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., which can be used in place of stitches to close incisions. Successfully substituted for surgical stitches in 300 trial patients with a wide variety of wounds, the tape is waterproof and non-irritative, reduces the risk of infection...
¶An ingenious, 10-Ib. heart-lung machine, invented by Dr. Sam I. Lerman. a Detroit general practitioner. Powered by a windshield wiper motor, Dr. Lerman's homemade machine-like complicated, bulky hospital models that weigh 75 Ibs. or more, cost from $4,000 to $40,000-is designed...