Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares a strip of skin loose from a patient's abdomen, leaving both ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent home for about three months to see whether his system...
...going to brand you." A three-inch sewing needle was heated with matches and, Hobbs said, "Gertie started putting words on her, but she got sick and told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said: "I'm a prostitute and proud of it." Two days later, Hobbs added, he used the hooked end of a 2-ft.-long anchor bolt that had been heated with burning newspapers to brand the numeral 3 on Sylvia's chest...
...gets surcease only when she is sound asleep, and for sound sleep she often has to take drugs. Awake, she has sneezed as often as every two seconds, and has never gone more than 15 minutes without the spasms that now cause pain in her nose, ears, chest and abdomen. A high school sophomore, she has had to give up classes. Jackson Memorial specialists tried antihistamines, tranquilizers, central-nervous-system depressants, narcotics, X rays, antibiotics, local astringents, hypnotism, shock treatment and muscle relaxants-all to no avail...
...effects of severe lactase deficiency can be both distressing and dramatic. After drinking a glass of milk, the victim soon doubles up with cramps that may spread across his entire distended abdomen. He suffers nausea and flatulence, and then a profuse, watery diarrhea. The mechanism of these reactions has now become clear, say Dr. Struthers and his Colorado colleague, Dr. Fred Kern Jr. Lactase is supposed to do its sugar-splitting work along the lining of the small bowel; if the enzyme is missing or in short supply, the undigested sugar passes into the large bowel, where it is promptly...
...suffered an emotional trauma, and in an unconscious attempt to elude the consequences changed his address and his mistress, never suspecting that Freud is not so easily mocked and that, in fact, one morning a few months later he would "pee blood," suffer frightful pains in his abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor in Italy who can explain his symptoms, which nevertheless increase in severity and peculiarity, the pains accompanied more and more often by such vivid evidences of acute anxiety...