Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest fear was aroused by the prospect of wounds in the abdomen (29%), eyes (27%), brain (22%), genitals (20%). Least feared: wounds in the legs and feet, or hands and arms (12%), face (7%), torso...
...latter type. "On Feb. 13 he had received a letter from home at 8 a.m., and his abdominal distention resulted at 11 a.m. the same day." He had another attack when he was refused permission to go home for his wife's confinement. "The circumference of the abdomen was 41 inches." By using narcotics and suggestion, the doctors reduced his abdomen to 30 inches. "The reduction was maintained at this level for one hour . . . and there after slowly returned to the former level." Next day suggestion without narcotics brought his abdomen down again. After a visit to his wife...
...identified them all now," she said with the proper degree of sadness. "It wasn't a pleasant job, though. We had to dig one chap's dog tag out of his throat, and another had his wallet driven into his abdomen...
Other practically sure signs of neurosis: fear of not being able to draw a deep breath, burning in the abdomen, repeated belching, stomachaches after "emotional debauches," "distresses that come before breakfast...
Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield died 78 days later, because his doctors, headed by his boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been...