Word: bladdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Count Ilya Tolstoy, 67, second son of the late great Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, lecturer, author (Visions, Reminiscences of My Father); of heart and gall-bladder disorders; in New Haven, Conn. After the 1917 revolution he returned to Russia from a U. S. lecture tour, was driven out again by Bolsheviks. With his wife, a Russian emigree whom he married in 1920 in Newark, he lived in the Connecticut hills, tilled his own soil. In 1926 he helped with the screen adaptation of his father's Resurrection, played in it the part of the cobbler-philosopher...
...York City. Soon he was made assistant to the president of Williams College, whence he was graduated in 1909. He went to teach at Harvard Law in 1917. Last January Mrs. Sayre, who had long served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts Democracy, died after a gall bladder operation (TIME...
Medical Economics, "business magazine of the medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies...
...Francisco's Dr. Walter Bernard Coffey, he addressed the American College of Surgeons last month on his method of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases of cancerous bladder, and on his "surgical quarantine" of healthy tissue during treatment (TIME...
...over the symposium on cancer, in which 30 eminent surgeons shared. One of the best attention-holders was Dr. Robert Calvin Coffey of Portland.* Ore., a swarthy, beetling man who was called upon to describe his famed system of draining the kidneys through the intestines in cases where the bladder is diseased. Dr. Coffey also described his system of "surgical quarantine." When he operates on a diseased abdomen he blocks off healthy organs with sheets of rubber and packs cotton wicks into the hollows left by organs removed. As the patient's insides heal and connective tissues fill...