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Last week, the sutures withdrawn from her abdomen, Fifi's recovery was pronounced complete...
Sandra's trouble: embryonal nephroma or Wilms tumor (named for German Surgeon Marx Wilms, 1867-1918). The disease is an expanding growth of the kidney which rapidly fills the abdomen and hinders normal functions. It usually causes a relatively painless death within six months after diagnosis. The doctors, who might have removed Sandra's kidney if the condition had been discovered sooner, shook their heads. The medical men knew better than anyone else how often modern medicine, with all its touted knowledge and skill, has to stand back and accept defeat...
...lifting a packing box when he suddenly felt everything "let loose" in his stomach. When he lay down he didn't feel so bad, but the minute he stood up, the old feeling came back. At the Chicago hospital, he complained of severe, knifelike pains in the abdomen...
...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...