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Holy Cross doctors took X rays which indicated stomach cancer, and incidentally showed a stonelike mass, 6 in. long, in the abdomen. Dr. Edward J. Krol and colleagues decided to remove it. The object, they report in the Illinois Medical Journal, was a lithopedion (stone child), a petrified fetus of three to four months' gestation. The doctors' conclusion: what had troubled Mrs. W. 37 years ago was not the flu but an ectopic pregnancy, in which the fertilized ovum had lodged in one of the Fallopian tubes. As the fetus grew, it burst the tube and escaped into...
...poisons: along the way he synthesized 400 compounds which produced some of curare's effects in one degree or another. His research brought out the usefulness of succinylcholine. a long-neglected curare-like compound now widely employed as a muscle relaxant in major surgery on the chest and abdomen...
There were three things about 18-year-old Seaman Wesley Daggett that interested the doctors at the U.S. Navy Base Hospital at Sasebo, Japan. First, he was covered with ugly bruises on his abdomen, chest and buttocks. Secondly, he had just been discharged from the Sasebo base brig, and third, he refused to tell what had happened to him. Since the same symptoms had turned up on another case the previous week, the doctors kept after Daggett until he began to talk. What they heard sent the Navy and Marine Corps charging to the brig to investigate...
Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
Sadao Ohmura, 32, a surgeon in the municipal hospital at Shizuoka, near Yokohama, had waited ever since he was a medical student for a chance to prove his contention that "we Japanese are more skillful with our hands than Westerners." Last week, with his abdomen tense and sore, he knew that the eagerly hoped-for day had arrived. Staggering into an operating room, he got a nurse to sterilize his midriff and hands, help him into a sterile smock and mask. Then he clambered onto the operating table. When Chief Surgeon Mikio Takahashi protested, Dr. Ohmura replied: "I have only...