Word: appendix
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...nine months Dr. Theodor Herr's appendix had been nudging and twingeing him. Recently the brisk, 37-year-old German surgeon, of Hamdorf, near Kiel, decided it was time to have it out. To find out how his own patients felt, he injected Novocaine and operated on himself. Unlike most surgeons in self-operations, Herr used no mirrors, merely had an assistant hand him his instruments as he worked (from a half-reclining position). Next day he was out of bed, attending to his patients...
Mary Frances Blakeslee '52 was rushed to Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge at 7 p.m. that evening. Hospital authorities reported last night that Miss Blakeslee was "resting comfortably," minus her appendix. She will not appear in the show, which is scheduled to take place on November...
Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...medicine's unsolved mysteries was recently unraveled with the discovery that the malaria parasite hides for 10 days in the human: 1. Appendix. 2. Gall bladder. 3. Brain. 4. Pancreas. 5. Liver...
Boston baseball fans worried about Ted Williams' appendix. Bewildered Nebraskans found themselves caught up in the hottest political campaign to date (see Republicans). In Denver, a young secretary sighed a variation on an old theme: "I'm afraid those prices are going to stay up in the clouds forever...