Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
...that Richberg is now Washington's No. 1 man. Tugwell fades into the violet distance as his ship fast approaches foreign shores. General Johnson's resignation was probably necessary for the reorganization of the Brain Truster's most lusty child--NRA--now designated NRB after the removal of its appendix (A). The net result of its new democratic set-up is that business men will now have to deal with three department instead of one. The NRB now has an imposing front but it is probably that Richberg will make all final decisions...
Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
Along this line I think it would be wise in the article labeled "New Deal Cold Cure" regarding Federal Cold Treatment No. I, to warn people who have not had their appendix removed to be very cautious about taking the castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge. I presume that you are assuming that this would be under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but by far the greater percentage of people who have colds do not take medicine under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but rather on their own initiative. . . . The coincident attack of appendicitis with...
...Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs. In the old the appendix largely loses its lymphoid character. Its risks then grow from diseases of its blood vessels. "In the young patient, therefore...