Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every assistance. Toward the end of the morning, as a patient was being wheeled away, Superintendent Jolly turned to Photographer Miller, remarked: "Now here is something special you might want to see. The next one is a Caesarean section."* Photographer Miller clicked eagerly while the patient was anesthetized, her abdomen opened, her baby drawn out feet first; followed through while the baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced on the Caesarean pictures as most newsworthy. Well he knew that...
With eight Egyptians killed by Russell Pasha's forces fortnight ago, a scrimmage last week caused the police to shoot an Egyptian boy in the abdomen and gravely wound four others. Russell Pasha then changed his tactics. Police began firing charges of small buckshot directly into massed Cairo demonstrators. Correspondents, surprised to see how spunkily Egyptian girl students stood up to this kind of treatment, decided to call on 70-year-old Mme Said Zaghlul...
...prodigious to help them in their jobs of supervising menus in hospitals, hotels, restaurants, schools and relief kitchens, Western Reserve's able Professor Thomas Wingate Todd declared: "There are three criteria of a stomach that is up to its job: 1) a mind free from fog; 2) an abdomen free from discomfort; 3) a sleep free from dreams...
Besides lowering blood pressure rhizotomy or splanchnic resection "leads to disappearance of perspiration on the legs and lower abdomen, increases the warmth of these parts of the body, and turns them slightly more pink than usual...
Sugars & Fats- Diabetes is due to improper functioning of the pancreas, a small spongy gland in the abdomen which pours certain digestive juices into the intestines. In addition, the pancreas secretes insulin, a hormone which goes directly into the blood and helps turn carbohydrates into energy. To compensate for lack of insulin production in diabetics, doctors for the past dozen years have given such patients hypodermic doses of drugstore insulin. In addition some doctors order them to take large amounts of fat with their meals, with the idea of resting an inefficient pancreas. Other doctors order large amounts of sugars...