Word: bladder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...starts with one of the friskiest and funniest ballets ever seen on screen: a sort of midtown montage of pimps and policemen, dips and drabs, teens and touts that comes to a climax in a hilarious antiphony of horse-players as they peruse what Runyon called "the morning bladder." In fact, from first to last-and the last dance is a thrilling choreography, set in a picturesque sewer, of the primordial rite of dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music...
Another fallacy: "It is surprising how often you hear people remark behind the back of a patient suffering from neurotic anxieties or neurotic mood disorders, 'If he only pulled himself together-surely he could help it!' . . . Nobody would ever think that an abscess of the gall bladder can be treated by pulling oneself together, but not many people are prepared to look at nervous anxiety states with the same attitude . . . Many religious people use towards a neurotic patient a kind of spiritual approach of 'Pull yourself together!' ... By this attitude religion becomes a sort of mental...
B.C.M. now had a perfectly healthy (although slightly smaller) new bladder. The plastic bag was deflated and, with its tubes, pulled out through the urethra and the incision without further surgery. Since the operation had not touched the small sphincter muscle that opens and closes the entrance to the urethra, the patient had no difficulty in controlling his new bladder...
...smooth muscle in the pouch was, in the words of the doctors, "more difficult to rationalize" : true regeneration of smooth muscle has been observed only in rare situations, and mostly in animals. After considering several possible sources, doctors could only conclude that the smooth muscle in the new bladder may somehow have been formed from the primitive connective tissue...
Patients who need new bladders are not likely to worry much where they come from. The new operation spells hope for thousands afflicted with such common bladder ailments as cancer or chronic ulcers. "It's by no means a panacea for everybody with bladder trouble," says Dr. Bohne. "But the new procedure will replace the reservoir and will, we believe, prevent the kidneys from becoming infected, a result that frequently caused untimely deaths after the older method of radical surgery and the insertion of permanent catheters [artificial drainage tubes] into the kidneys. And if, for example, we can eradicate...