Word: abdomenal
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Though the fact is not generally known, the contents of the abdomen can be examined without a major "exploratory" operation, which is usually dangerous, occasionally fatal. Yet this simple method, called peritoneoscopy. was developed 37 years ago by Dr. Georg Kelling of Dresden, was neatly perfected four years ago by Dr. John Carroll Ruddock of Los Angeles. Last fortnight the New England Journal of Medicine printed an article on this useful subject, by Boston's Dr. Edward Benson Benedict, whose experience confirmed Dr. Ruddock's-that with a peritoneoscope he can make an accurate diagnosis of ailments within...
...than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting, dizziness, breathlessness. A person dying from an overdose of sulfanilamide becomes blue, has pains in abdomen and chest, gasps. His heart beats fast; his hands & feet tingle; he has diarrhea...
Casting about for something new with which to attack mouse sarcoma 180. Dr. Richard Lewisohn of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that...
...precedent in U. S. jurisprudence on this phase of the legal status of fetuses, to deny $100,000 damages to a Mrs. Theresa Joller Smith, who had sued Dr. Albert E. Luckhardt and Radiologist Isador Simon Trostler. Thirteen years ago, she claimed, Dr. Luckhardt diagnosed a lump in her abdomen as a tumor and the radiologist treated her with X-rays. The "tumor" turned out to be a baby whose head the X-rays had caused to harden unduly soon. Result was an imbecile who lived until last October...
...police have also issued a poster seeking information. In it he is described as "five feet eight inches tall, weighs one hundred and seventy pounds, ruddy complexion, brown wavy hair, perfect teeth, black eyebrows, long black eyelashes, usually smiling. He has a small irregular scar on lower part of abdomen. He is very good looking and a neat dresser. When last seen he had on a blue flannel coat and gray trousers...