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...left him," says Dr. Russell, "Mrs. Callahan signed the release." A phone message went to the Brigham even as the patrolman's lifeless body was wheeled into an operating room. There Drs. Nathan Couch and Anthony Monaco made a long vertical incision on the right side of the abdomen. Within three minutes they cut down to the portal vein, which drains into the liver; they then injected a frigid solution to cool the precooled liver down still more. They completed their work in 24 minutes and dropped the liver into a cold saline solution in a sterilized container...
...raised my hand to examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said...
...patient obeyed, and Dr. Gerisch was able to examine McBurney's point (a spot on the abdomen, which becomes supersensitive in appendicitis), and the rest of the young woman's usually fluttery abdomen. She made no complaint about being tickled...
From the point of view of modern archaeologists, Chilca burial customs were ideal, since they helped to preserve the remains. When a man died, he was laid on reed mats in his house and covered with other mats. Then heavy stones were placed over his chest and abdomen, presumably to keep his ghost from rising to haunt the living. Women's ghosts were considered more dangerous; sometimes five stakes were driven through female bodies...
This seemed to prove that the queen's perfume is what makes the workers cluster around her, but Simpson wanted to know what part of her is most attractively scented. So he cut a queen in three pieces-abdomen, thorax and head-and put each in a separate cage. None of the three had much effect on-a queenless cluster, but when the severed parts were crushed, the workers rallied around the crushed head. So the queen's powerful perfume must come from her head, probably from the mandibular glands...