Word: bladder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two operative ways of reaching the prostate to remove the enlarged portions: 1) by opening through the perineum (crotch); 2) by cutting through the abdomen, between the navel and the joint of the pubic bones, and opening the bladder...
...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. It produces a thin, cloudy, slightly alkaline, albuminous secretion, the physiological function of which is to increase the swimming speed...
...Allous Messieurs, I am ready." said M. Poincarč, and an ether mask soon covered his grizzly white whiskers. As the great War-time President of France sank into somnolence, he did not feel Surgeons Marion and Gosset fiddling about below his bladder...
...elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only to the onslaught of age, M. Poincarč stepped briskly from his apartment, motored to a clinic, and next morning with firm step walked...
...straw-hatted, but looking thin, was pushed through Washington's Union Station last week in a wheelchair, on his way to his summer home in Murray Bay, Canada. Mrs. Taft kept him company in another wheelchair. Exhausted by a trip to Cincinnati and back, fearing recurrence of an old bladder ailment, Mr. Chief Justice had been hospitalized for five days, examined, rested, reported sound. Starting north, however, he avoided exertion...