Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square-eyed young woman with flowing hair lay on her side on a rolling operating-room stretcher. Down her abdomen ran the bright scarlet streak of a surgical incision, freshly stitched. Above her stood a dapper young doctor in white preparing to give her a hypodermic. In the background another doctor was holding a new baby upside down. Thus last week did Nina Tablada present her idea of a Caesarean section at the 19th annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists on the beaverboard partitions of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace...
Power dives involve terrific physical strain, frequently cause ruptured intestines, broken blood vessels in the brain. To protect themselves during the "pullout." some pilots wear a wide leather belt, others tense the muscles of the abdomen and neck by shouting...
...appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were level; his arms, hands and even his fingertips were distended with air, and were tympanitic on percussion. His abdomen, legs and particularly his scrotum were greatly enlarged. The scrotum was about the size of a football and was tense and tympanitic. The patient's condition was obviously precarious. He became cyanotic, respirations became irregular and pulse weak...
Treatment proved simple. "A large-bore needle was inserted into the scrotum and air under pressure whistled out. The size of the scrotum did not change for some time, but it was noted that the swelling of the abdomen had somewhat decreased. It was found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected...
...Omaha who, born with a ruptured diaphragm, was sped cross-country to Fall River and Dr. Truesdale's Hospital for an operation. Last week Dr. Truesdale, home from a leisurely Caribbean cruise, put Patient McHenry on the table, opened her up, pushed her intestines and stomach into her abdomen, darned the diaphragmatic partition shut, closed her body, called the job done...