Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated for the immediate surgical treatment of such an injury." All that remained to be done was to separate gut and abdominal wall, stitch up the gut, clean and dress the wound. In three weeks, the patient went home and, six months later, was perfectly healthy...
...surgeons limited themselves to the infected, jeep-riding cases, vied in thinking up ways to cut healing time. One method, the closed technique: stitch the wound up tight to make the edges heal directly together. Dr. Buie does not approve of the closed technique, gives statistics to show that infected cysts recur in about a quarter of the people so treated...
...Stitch In Time. In the springtime, young Earl used to cut willow branches with his pocket knife and whittle whistles. One afternoon he fell off a lurching wagon and almost bit off his tongue. Several quick stitches by the family doctor saved the unruly member for future high-school debating. Iowa speechmaking, and eventual policy-pronouncing from Republican National Headquarters. When he was still a boy, Earl settled on law as his career. He hung around the county courthouse after school, listening with interest to the routine trials of routine lawbreakers. Through his father, Zwingle Spangler, who carried weight...
...skin-grafting operation was a bloody business. Each new stitch to hold the big skin-patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
...face, the first consideration is to make sure that there is a good airway for breathing-bandage should press the chin, the tongue should be kept out of the way (if a patient cannot control his tongue, it can be fastened to the clothing by a single stitch through it). Lives may be saved if men wounded in the lower jaw are kept either upright or lying face downward. Recumbent they may choke to death...