Word: bladdered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patient drink the mixture on an empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue of phenolphthalein to trickle into the bladder with the urine. Phenolphthalein turns pink when mixed with an alkaline substance like sodium hydroxide. So when Dr. Woldman drops sodium hydroxide into an ulcerated or cancerous individual's urine, the urine turns an indicative pink. For patients too sick for roentgenological study, or in cases where...
...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...
...cured septicemia, erysipelas, meningitis, scarlet fever, otitismedia (earinflammation). It has cured some cases of tonsillitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis. It has cured gonorrhea in people who have been infected for some time, but "first infections . . respond poorly if at all." It is a good antiseptic against infections of the kidneys and bladder...
...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...