Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ascitic fluid is a clear yellow serum, similar to blood, but more watery, containing neither red nor white blood corpuscles. It collects in the swollen abdomens of persons suffering from dropsy, a condition resulting from cirrhosis of the liver or certain types of heart disease. To relieve pain the patient's abdomen is tapped, and the fluid drained out. Often as much as 410 ounces is withdrawn, and the patient is glad...
...Doctor, Here's Your Hat, Dr. Jerger also tells that he was called out to a farmer's house one day on a confinement case, got into the wrong bedroom while the farmer was stabling his horse, palpated the abdomen of a sleeping schoolteacher by mistake...
...lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
Each student is observed for three weeks. X-rays of the abdomen are made every few hours to follow the progress of food through the intestines. During the first week the volunteers live on bran-free diets, during the second week eat bran, during the third week again return to bran-free food...
...Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds he was astonished to find the patient's abdomen open. Most surgeons at the General took ten minutes for this procedure...