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...year-old Arab girl had no business to be still alive : when Captain W. W. Wilson of the Royal Army Medical Corps first saw her, she had been shot in the abdomen eight days before and the wide wound, leaking intestinal contents, was untended except for a packing of tow, a dressing of mud and torn clothing. Ordinarily, such an untreated wound means peritonitis (infection of the abdominal lining) and almost inevitable death. Yet the girl had not even a fever...
...Moreira Cesar's artillery opened up, the church bell began ringing, "summoning the faithful to battle." As his troops swept into the trap, he was wounded in the abdomen. "It is nothing," he said. Another bullet struck him. By nightfall the army was panic-stricken...
From the chest down, Ernie Defort, 12, of Winnipeg was two boys. Ever since he was born, Ernie had carried around a repulsive parasitic growth on his lower chest.* It consisted of two extra arms, an extra abdomen, an extra pelvis, two extra legs, an extra liver. Ernie used to have an extra pair of kidneys, but they were removed when he was two years...
...Greatest fear was aroused by the prospect of wounds in the abdomen (29%), eyes (27%), brain (22%), genitals (20%). Least feared: wounds in the legs and feet, or hands and arms (12%), face (7%), torso...
...latter type. "On Feb. 13 he had received a letter from home at 8 a.m., and his abdominal distention resulted at 11 a.m. the same day." He had another attack when he was refused permission to go home for his wife's confinement. "The circumference of the abdomen was 41 inches." By using narcotics and suggestion, the doctors reduced his abdomen to 30 inches. "The reduction was maintained at this level for one hour . . . and there after slowly returned to the former level." Next day suggestion without narcotics brought his abdomen down again. After a visit to his wife...