Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangest of children's diseases is celiaca, a lingering intestinal ailment which produces diarrheaandmuscular weakness, stunts growth for several years. Victims of celiaca cannot utilize fats and carbohydrates; most sugars ferment in their intestines, cause enormous distention of the abdomen...
...impossible to tell, from a bullet's point of entrance, what track it may have taken. Often missiles passed clear through the abdomen without damaging any of the viscera. He added that the recovery rate for persons injured by revolver bullets was "flattering" to the operating surgeon...
...chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen...
Stitcher. In Cleveland, police held a man who claimed he had stabbed himself in the abdomen, then neatly sewed himself up. When doctors refused to believe him, he sewed on himself awhile, by way of demonstration...
...Says Dr. Miller, detonation of bombs often causes definite brain injury in persons near by. But today, instead of shell shock, doctors call it blast concussion. The force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...