Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sensitivity of the eye, like that of other sense organs, decreases with distention of the viscera. "It is important in responsible reconnaissance operations that the visceral organs of the abdomen and the pelvis should not be overcongested...
Burma "as a cruel punishment lasting three months and administered by six tattooers," Constantine had 388 designs on his body, 52 on his abdomen and buttocks alone. In addition to two crowned sphinxes, two serpents, two swans and one horned owl, he had genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...
...forms" and moved hastily on to Baltimore Polytechnic. The Polytechnic taught him 1) that philanthropy was "a purely imaginary quantity, like demi-virginity or one glass of beer," and 2) that the eager curiosity of growing boys was not to be satisfied by anatomy classes in which "all the abdomen south of the umbilicus was represented by a smooth and quite uneventful surface...
...doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down." But Drs. Edwards and Hingson believe it speeded labor in their series-all an obstetrician has to do is keep a hand on his patient's abdomen, tell her when to help...
...Vanity Fair heard of the "technique," readily got permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After Erdmann's usual greetings to the assembled throng...