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...State Department emphasized that doctors had "no evidence whatsoever" that the cancer had extended to other organs in the abdomen...
...Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, Neurosurgeon Eugene Spitz, 37, tried running a tube direct from baby Charles' head to his abdomen. It worked only for a few days at a time, then another operation was needed to clean it. To the father Dr. Spitz explained that he would like to drain the brain fluid into the jugular vein. But this would need a valve (to prevent back flow by the blood), and so far no satisfactory valve had been devised-they all had a tendency to clog...
...conventional position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...
Adair was the first human subject so treated for barbiturate poisoning. Punching a hole through the muscle wall of his abdomen 2 in. below the navel, doctors inserted a plastic tube in his peritoneal cavity and hooked this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with...
Expectant Treatment. For those expected to die. In this category are men so badly injured (extensive injuries of the respiratory tract or central nervous system, penetrating wounds of the abdomen, multiple severe injuries, extensive burns) that only complicated and prolonged treatment might save them...