Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient, a pregnant, 29-year-old Negro woman, had complained for months of severe pains in her abdomen. One day last week, as she approached full term, the pains got worse. In the osteopathic unit of Los Angeles County General Hospital, doctors X-rayed her, found to their astonishment that the uterus was only slightly enlarged. The baby was not there; it was thrashing about in the abdomen, its head under the liver and the rest of its body lodged against the stomach and intestines...
...Edward Abbott, assisted by Dr. Charles Mount, made a six-inch midline incision in the abdomen. The patient bled profusely (she got almost eight pints of blood in transfusions). The doctors cut the fetal sac, seized the infant, pulled out a wailing baby girl. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Condition of mother & daughter at week's end: excellent...
From the soldier's abdomen, the surgeons grafted tissue to give the hand form. From his foot they got tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...
Death, which lurks in every corner of a big metropolis, struck with unusual suddenness in New York City last week: ¶Shy Josephine Marra, 29, was embarrassed by the awful pain in her abdomen. She had no idea what caused it. She had just been walking along Brooklyn's Greene Avenue, had doubled up, and then had fallen. Flustered, she allowed a passer-by to help her into a small, private hospital. But the doctor was about to perform an operation on another patient, and asked her to wait. She left, walked seven blocks to her home. The puzzling...
...surgery patient in a thousand dies under anesthetic. The usual emergency treatment, when a patient's heart stops, is artificial respiration and an adrenalin injection into the heart. Mr. Bailey said he had abandoned this uncertain, time-consuming method for more direct action. He cuts open the abdomen below the ribs with a sweep of the knife, grasps the exposed heart with his right hand and squeezes it like a bulb. After a few minutes' massage, Mr. Bailey triumphantly reported, some of his patients' hearts began to beat of their own accord, and the patients recovered. Other...