Word: bladdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least possibility risking any lesion to lung. An incision about four to five inches long on left lower abdomen was made through which an L-shaped stone was removed from lower part left ureter in about 12 minutes. Thorough exploration of entire ureter upwards to kidney, downwards to urinary bladder and careful repair wound required altogether about 50 minutes.* One extraordinary thing about operation is that peritoneum not opened or in other words the abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post...
...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Died. Paul May, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S. since 1931; after an operation for a gall-bladder ailment; in Washington...
Died. Brand Whitlock, 65, author, onetime (1919-22) U. S. Ambassador to Belgium; following a bladder operation; in Cannes, France. Reporting in Chicago and law in Toledo interested him in politics, led to his election in 1905 as a reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...
Ketones. Infections of the kidney and bladder tract are hard for doctors to treat. Drs. Arnold E. Osterberg and Henry F. Helmholz of the Mayo Clinic reported experiments showing that ketonic bodies in the blood, such as acetone, diacetic acid and beta-oxybutyric acid, will cure such infections if generated in sufficient quantities. Best diet for stimulating ketone production is high in fat, low in proteins and sugar. Ideal fat-protein-sugar proportion...