Word: bladder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writhing as if in the clutches of an invisible but murderous wrestler who twists his head in a series of jerks toward one or other shoulder, screws his limbs, contorts his body-a demon who causes him to bite his own tongue, eject the contents of his bowels and bladder, to bubble at the mouth with foam until his aspect becomes so shocking that it may well induce a similar attack in the beholder-this devil-ridden man may be an epileptic...
...sure, was done with footballs, but footballs are not made of pigskin. They are made of cowhide? a startling fact made public in the advance notices for a congress of leather producers which will meet in Chicago next month. But although deluded about the material in the leather-covered bladder they fell on, ran with, kicked, bit, clutched and groaned over, the football players of the U. S. accomplished last Saturday even more than usual...
...which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure...
While all this was being aired, Senator Couzens was sick in bed with inflammation of the bladder...
According to Captain Humann, confidential representative of Herr Hugo Stinnes, that great swarthy, inscrutable industrial giant was ill in bed with inflammation of the bladder...