Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood is a frequent, but by no means the sole cause.* The prostate gland nestles between the male bladder and rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long...
Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
President Don Horacio Vasquez of the Dominican Republic, ill of a kidney ailment, flew (Pan American Airways) to Havana, to Miami, entrained for Baltimore where he, and perhaps his sick wife, will undergo treatment at famed Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...suffering from a leg injury sustained in the Dartmouth game, but Dr. Richards expected that the rugged end would be in shape for tomorrow's intersectional clash. O'Connell's recovery has been slow, however, and his place will be taken by Harding. The exact nature of Gidea's ailment was not revealed...
James William Good, Secretary of War. entered Walter Reed Hospital at Washington, D. C., Ailment: neuritis...