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...privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds (52.6 Kg.) for the tumor. It has occurred to me many times since writing that report in trying to recall all the circumstances that due allowance was not made for the fluid used in irrigating the abdomen, and that the weight stated, therefore, cannot hold and should not be cited as 116 pounds net but left indeterminate...
Thus, after certain operations (particularly of the abdomen), after anesthesia, asphyxia or apparent drowning, tiny recesses of the lungs may be plugged. The lungs may partially collapse. Secondary pneumonia often results. Carbon dioxide may stimulate the lungs to deep, full inhalation. In fact, wrote Professor Henderson in the Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine, "It appears that this is probably a specific treatment against all secondary pneumonia...
...milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said he: "I don't see what else I could have done." Mary Butterfield, who had not tried...
Ulcers may be caused by infections. Occasionally an ulcer follows a blow upon the abdomen or an extensive superficial burn. Cobblers and anemic, dyspeptic maidservants are for some reason prone to develop ulcers...
When Dr. Fred Simon Morris, colleague of Dr. Evans, opened the boy's abdomen, it was a cistern of blood. Had there been anyone handy with blood suitable for transfusion the blood in Junior Evans' abdomen could have been sponged up, thrown away. With no suitable donor ready, autotransfusion was essential...