Word: tourniquet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They tied a tourniquet on a rabbit's hind leg, injected India ink or other opaque fluids into its arteries (to make the blood flow visible) and watched the results by X ray. The experiments soon solved the "crush syndrome" mystery: prolonged pressure on the leg arteries produced spasms of nearby blood vessels, which, among other things, blocked the normal circulation in the kidneys...
...speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point of bankruptey and then quietly succumbed to Peron's demand for minerals and collaboration. A simple and vicious application of an agricultural tourniquet to a democratic government for political reasons vividly defines Argentina's ambitions for South American hegemony and points up her real menace to hemispheric solidarity...
...head getting off a streetcar and fell beneath the wheels. He lay in the street while Mexico's Red Cross and White Cross (then hot rivals for every body found in the streets) argued about who should get him. A woman stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little wooden platform to wheel himself around, bought a shoeshine box, and went to the patio of the National...
...down and took hold of Stanley Gunn's hand and began trying to lift him gently. A few seconds later when the other correspondents wobbled in with flashlights I realized that there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted, and even held it himself for a while. Clete Roberts ignored an injured wrist and started out to find a doctor and ambulance...
...kept on. He never lost his smile either. I was putting a tourniquet on his stump when shrapnel cut up his hands. Some of it hit me, but the skipper took the brunt...