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...irritant was removed. The intern spoke into her ear, calling her by her first name. "Ann," he said, "can you hear me? What hurts you, Ann? Can you tell me?" The girl seemed to be making an effort to speak; she got out the word "stomach," and clutched her abdomen...
...Evanston, Ill., Surgeon Edson F. Fowler was just beginning to relax. He had removed part of the stomach of the Rev. James Cummings, 35, a Chicago priest, because of intractable ulcers. Everything had gone smoothly. But as Dr. Fowler was putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers on the machine's flutter valves...
...student nurse who became a patient at Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital, was different. After more than 100 minutes of massaging by four doctors working in relays, her heart still refused to settle down to a steady pumping beat. Instead, the muscles, manipulated through an incision in the upper abdomen, fluttered spasmodically and at cross purposes-an effect known as "fibrillation...
...operating table was a normal, squalling, blue-eyed infant except for one thing: he had been born without an esophagus. Surgeons cut into the abdomen, made an opening in the stomach wall so that the baby could be fed by tube. Then they sat back and hoped for the best...
...pulling the pin of a hand grenade. Exactly four seconds later, above the sound of the bugles, there was an explosion. Five men fell to the ground: General Chanson and Governor Thanh, mortally wounded, died within the hour. Two other French officers were seriously hurt. The fifth man, his abdomen ripped open, one hand and one leg completely torn away, was Trinh Van Minh, the assassin; he died within minutes...