Word: bladder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Look Homeward Angel:" "Lying darkly in his crib, washed, powdered, and fed, he thought quietly of many things before he dropped off to sleep . . . he grew sick as he thought of the weary distance before him, the lack of coordination of the centres of control, the undisciplined and rowdy bladder, the helpless exhibition he was forced to give in the company of his sniggering, pawing brothers and sisters, dried, cleaned, revolved before them...
Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...
...bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal sexually; 5) the Young punch, an instrument to cut through bladder obstructions...
Hastily absolving McCarthy of all blame for the Yankees' failures, MacPhail refused to accept the resignation. He suggested instead that Joe go home for a rest. The 58-year-old manager, who has suffered from a gall bladder ailment and who could certainly afford to retire if he felt like it (total earnings with the Yankees: some $500,000), shuffled off to Buffalo to think things...
Next comes training of the paralyzed organs. By slow, patient use of a "tidal drainage" system, the paralyzed bladder and bowels are conditioned to empty themselves automatically at regular intervals. Learning to walk is more difficult. In most cases success depends mainly on 1 ) convincing the patient of the incredible fact that walking is possible, 2) exercises to strengthen' the arms and shoulders (which supply the power for swinging the legs). Finally comes training for a job that a man can do with head and hands alone...