Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
April 9.--Diseases of the Bladder and Prostate. (To men only.) Dr. W. C. Quinby...