Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across country, to deliver a Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford. Dr. McDowell, a big, vigorous man, rode over to Greentown. Two attending physicians assured him that Mrs. Crawford carried twins. He made an examination per vaginam, soon ascertained that she was not pregnant but had a large tumor in the abdomen which moved easily from side to side...
...McDowell: "Madam, I can do you no good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...
Thirty minutes elapsed before Dr. McDowell was ready to gather Mrs. Crawford's intestines together and replace them in her abdomen. By that time they had become so cold that he "thought proper to bathe them in tepid water previous to replacing them." He then deftly stitched up the wound. In 25 days the first woman ever to undergo an ovariotomy was "perfectly well." She lived 33 years thereafter, had a son who became Mayor of Louisville...
...finest attack of nervous indigestion in all Europe descended last week upon the lean Roman abdomen of Baron Pompeo Aloisi. This hawk-eyed, hollow-cheeked diplomat who since 1932 has served Italy as chief delegate to the League of Nations, found himself rudely summoned from his Geneva apartment, plumped down in a small private dining room before a table full of Swiss food, and talked to, straight from the shoulder, by two nervous, irritable statesmen whose friendship he valued, whose ability he recognized, whose view point he could understand. It was a dreadful meal. The soup got cold, the champagne...
...same, said he, is true for almost any plastic operation-removal of moles, repair of harelips, remodeling of noses, reconstruction of jaws, replacement of fingernails, destruction of scars, counterfeiting of fingertips. For fingertips he uses skin from the abdomen...