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...which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure...
While all this was being aired, Senator Couzens was sick in bed with inflammation of the bladder...
According to Captain Humann, confidential representative of Herr Hugo Stinnes, that great swarthy, inscrutable industrial giant was ill in bed with inflammation of the bladder...
...stomach and then, by use of the Xray, to obtain a photograph of the stomach's outlines. The method has become invaluable for the diagnosis of such conditions as ulcers of the stomach-wall. It has long been felt that valuable information could be had regarding the gall-bladder if some method could be found of introducing a substance into the gall-bladder which would make possible the photographing of its outline. Drs. Warren H. Cole and Evarts A. Graham of the Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) have succeeded in finding a substance which can be satisfactorily introduced...
Physicians at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, have also initiated a series of studies on body constitution in relation to disease. Their first studies, made on 50 patients with gall-bladder disease and 39 patients with ulcers of the stomach or intestines, indicated that persons who are heavy in relation to their height are more likely to have gall-bladder disease than are other persons. They also found that a wide angle between the ribs, at the point where they diverge in front, is a frequent finding in infections of the gallbladder. And they observed that the jaws and teeth...