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...years, doctors have known that the urinary bladder, more than any other organ in the human body, possesses remarkable powers of regeneration, e.g., after removal of a diseased section, the bladder grows right over the incision to become intact. But until recently doctors did not know how to take complete advantage of this unique power...
Compared with other more complex organs, the bladder has a relatively simple structure and function. It is a remarkably elastic, muscular sac lying in the pelvic cavity. It receives urine from the kidneys through two slender tubes called ureters, expands to pint or even quart size as it stores urine, then contracts and discharges it from the body through a third tube called a urethra. People with no bladders, or with diseased bladders, usually live in great discomfort and with considerable danger of serious kidney infection...
Temporary Short Cut. B.C.M., a 50-year-old office manager, was a case in point. When he entered Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he had drained his bladder through artificial tubes for 27 years, suffered almost constant pain from chronic ulcers of the bladder. This week B.C.M. was ready to leave the hospital with a bladder as new as an infant's, as the result of a remarkable operation that causes the patient to grow a completely new bladder after the old one has been removed...
...Lies, damned lies and statistics." Thus, only last week, the A.M.A.'s incoming President Elmer Hess, an Erie (Pa.) kidney and bladder specialist, had characterized much of the hard-won information on the subject of smoking and cancer. This week Dr. Hess-a smoker himself-was to hear some hard facts on the subject at A.M.A.'s convention in Atlantic City. Reason for the convention's preoccupation: lung cancer now causes around 24,000 deaths a year in the U.S., which puts it in the category of epidemic diseases...
...echoes: "Let's start a festival!" One happy hamlet that has followed the call is Germany's Bad Bertrich (pop. 800), nestled on a hillside 45 miles from Coblenz, near the Moselle river. It is moderately well known for its waters (good for stomach, gall bladder and liver disorders) and its 18th century castle, onetime residence of Prince-Bishop Clement Wenceslaus. Only a few years ago, tourists in Bad Bertrich seemed to be just about as dead as Clement: the bath houses were in disrepair, the castle was falling apart, and mighty few American or even British gall...