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...pressure." Dr. Young cured his prostate trouble by using a "punch" of his own invention-a straight tube with a short, curved inner end which, when passed through the urethra (urinary canal), trapped in a small window of the instrument the bar of tissue which was damming up his bladder and cut it with an inner, sliding steel tube...
Year ago, the doctors discovered that a young nurse in the hospital was a carrier. Sulfanilamide and other standard drugs did no good; they tried giving her iodophthalein, a dye used to show up the gall bladder in X-ray pictures. Next day the germs had vanished. They have not been heard from since...
Best-known method for curing typhoid carriers is cholecystectomy, or removal of the gall bladder, chief breeding ground for the bacilli. But such drastic operations are sometimes unsuccessful...
...Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of a paltry $2,300,000, "the city would double its income" by selling the power itself. But in San Francisco the decision caused a crisis. Mayor Rossi, his gall bladder and budget both upset, from his sickbed talked of canceling pay raises for city employes, increasing the tax rate 28?. Citizeness Henrietta Wright, a publicity-shy lawyers' stenographer, sued P. G. & E. on behalf of the city for $75,000,000-about what P. G. & E. has grossed from Hetch...
...Boston City Hospital, Dr. Charles C. Lund has been investigating the relation of vitamins to the healing of surgical wounds, which may have some bearing on the cancer problem. Dr. Fletcher Colby and Dr. Richard Dresser are continuing their observations on the treatment of cancer of the bladder by the million volt x-ray machine...