Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bite of a black-widow spider, which is common all over the U.S., is seldom fatal-but the pain is well-nigh unbearable. The victim suffers from something called arachnidism. He thrashes around in agony for one or two days, hurts for several more. His abdomen becomes as rigid as a board. His legs draw up in a series of spasms. None of the 60 remedies so far recommended by the medical books gives very notable relief from the spider's bite...
After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...
...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
...aphid, feeding on leaf juices, secretes a sweet liquid called "honey-dew" to which ants are very partial. Some varie ties of ants keep herds of aphids, like cows, and milk them by stroking the abdomen gently with their antennae; a well-fed aphid may yield 48 drops of "milk...
...reconstructing external organs, Dr. Frumkin ingeniously adapts well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...