Word: abdomenal
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...used forceps (which killed the baby) and performed Caesarean sections (which killed the mother) in cases of difficult delivery. Hindus today often put a brazier of hot charcoal under the maternity bed to assist Nature. More primitive obstetricians help by jumping up & down on the pregnant woman's abdomen...
After an abdominal operation gas generally forms in the intestines, balloons the abdomen, causes the patient excruciating agony for many hours. How to prevent such postoperative gas pains was the subject of two articles by surgeons in last week's American Journal of Surgery...
Across Dr. Brooks's abdomen Surgeon John Frederick Erdmann, 71, cut a twelve-inch opening. Surgeons John J. Moorhead, 61, and Harold Denman Meeker, 60, functioned as assistants. Standing on stools and craning their heads over the surgeon's shoulders were Diagnosticians Alexander Lambert, 74; Emanuel Libman, 63; Harry Aaron Solomon...
...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...
Surgeons Watson recalled that on rare occasions when a parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...