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...typical polio-encephalitis victim had blinding, excruciating headaches, accompanied by nausea and vomiting so severe that artificial feeding was sometimes necessary. About ten patients suffered bladder paralysis, necessitating the constant and painful use of catheters. Two developed arthritis. Many women had sharp abdominal pains, due to attacks by the germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
...internal medicine (diagnosis), 2) sur gery, 3) pediatrics (children), 4) obstetrics & gynecology, 5) ophthalmology, 6) otolaryngology. 7) dermatology (skin) & syphilology, 8) psychiatry (mind, emotions) & neurology (nerves), 9) urology (kidney, bladder), 10) orthopedic surgery (bones, muscles), 11) radiology (X ray, radium), 12) pathology (diseased tissue...
Died. Thérése Pereyra Blum, wife (second) of France's onetime Premier Leon Blum, who once said of her: "Madame Blum is my best adviser, my best friend, my best beloved, and my finest chauffeur"; after a gall bladder operation; in Paris...
...Germantown home to rest for three hours after the excitement. Connie Mack has been in poor health since he was injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
Died. Erich Ludendorff, 72, Germany's ruthless, domineering Wartime Chief of Staff, after an operation for a bladder ailment; in Munich...