Word: abscessed
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...soon conquered his queasiness, went through Chicago's Rush Medical College ('07), became a World War I Army surgeon and made a distinguished record. Example: he discovered that faulty surgical technique in the Army was the main cause of death in thousands of cases of massive chest abscess following influenza. In some camps the death rate hit 98%; after Major Graham's findings, it fell...
...lawyer who died at 56, never having felt keen pain. When one of his fingers was crushed in an accident, he bit it off. A spreading abscess which threatened his life evoked no pain even when it was lanced. Cataracts were removed from both eyes without an anesthetic. Only on his deathbed did he complain of a little discomfort...
Krebiozen is a whitish powder prepared from the serum of horses that have been injected with material from an abscess (known as "lumpy jaw") occurring in cattle. Its effect, according to Yugoslav-born Dr. Stevan Durovic, its discoverer, is to provide the body with a regulatory hormone that it needs to control the multiplication of cells...
...staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York State hospital staffs are off limits to generalists...
...verdict of cancer to suppress news of a tropical disease contracted on St. Helena, doesn't know that the same charge was made in 1937 by Raoul Brice, Lieut. General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses the English of fabricating carcinoma, to quiet the Boney faction, and to get off the hook of cruelty to an eminent prisoner by confining him in an unhealthy place...