Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the third to the fifth day of the fever dirty pink spots appear?first on the abdomen and upper chest, then on the back, then rapidly all over the body. Soon the spots become rusty pink. Some of them darken to purple, blue, brown, then disappear...
...privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds (52.6 Kg.) for the tumor. It has occurred to me many times since writing that report in trying to recall all the circumstances that due allowance was not made for the fluid used in irrigating the abdomen, and that the weight stated, therefore, cannot hold and should not be cited as 116 pounds net but left indeterminate...
...with gynecology and other abdominal subjects. In June his latest work will be published: Electrosurgery. With the collaboration of Dr. Grant Eben Ward, assistant in clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins, he is recording his long experience with the electric knife in operations dealing with the skin, nose, throat, chest, abdomen, genitourinary system, central nervous system...
Thus, after certain operations (particularly of the abdomen), after anesthesia, asphyxia or apparent drowning, tiny recesses of the lungs may be plugged. The lungs may partially collapse. Secondary pneumonia often results. Carbon dioxide may stimulate the lungs to deep, full inhalation. In fact, wrote Professor Henderson in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine, "It appears that this is probably a specific treatment against all secondary pneumonia...
Ulcers may be caused by infections. Occasionally an ulcer follows a blow upon the abdomen or an extensive superficial burn. Cobblers and anemic, dyspeptic maidservants are for some reason prone to develop ulcers...