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...longtime preservation, removal of the vital organs is not necessary. Carbolic acid, however, dissolves gas in the body and the abdomen is then likely to collapse. This can be corrected by packing the abdominal cavity with cotton. Whether or not Lenin's viscera have been tampered with, his brain was removed, dissected into thousands of pieces, some of which were sent to Paris and Berlin. The Lenin brain cells, it appeared, were much larger than normal...
...week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There are no known aftereffects...
...torn off. . . . The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or. if the steering wheel breaks off. the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen...
...McDowell: "Madam, I can do you no good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...
Thirty minutes elapsed before Dr. McDowell was ready to gather Mrs. Crawford's intestines together and replace them in her abdomen. By that time they had become so cold that he "thought proper to bathe them in tepid water previous to replacing them." He then deftly stitched up the wound. In 25 days the first woman ever to undergo an ovariotomy was "perfectly well." She lived 33 years thereafter, had a son who became Mayor of Louisville...