Word: armpit
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...procedure appeared last week in the American Journal of Cancer. The patient, a woman dying from recurrent cancer of the breast, came to the attention of Dr. Mendel Jacobi of Brooklyn. Dr. Jacobi injected a small quantity of a solution under the skin of the woman's diseased armpit. That solution was a filtrate of Bacillus typhostis, the germ which causes typhoid fever. Twenty-four hours later Dr. Jacobi administered a second injection of the filtrate intravenously...
Artist Shinn now explains his story as follows: He and his one-eyed friend, following a brief visit on the statue's hat brim, moved inside the head & shoulders for greater comfort. Seeing the old man busily occupied astride William Penn's armpit, Artist Shinn asked what he was doing. "Writing a letter to posterity," the friend replied, and promptly fell down into the Penn elbow. With some difficulty Artist Shinn extricated...
...quite commendable. The limp body of the vanquished; the tense, triumphant face of the victor; and the referee's alert attitude have been well caught. But it must also be admitted that the body of the victor is not too carefully drawn. The large muscle in the right armpit is unfortunately exaggerated, and both deltoids have not been given the treatment they deserve on a well-muscled body. The referee's body, too, is a bit out of proportion...
...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...
...Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into the cow-yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders and teats pocked with pustules. The diagnosis was: cowpox, long a rare disease among animals, as well as among humans. The treatment: applications of mercurochrome and hydrogen...