Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very few cats bite or scratch except through fear"; a cat "can throw it [vomit] farther and harder than any other species of domestic animal" ; epilepsy is rather common in kittens ; castration of male kittens" should be done at about six months of age, spaying before the first year; bladder stones are very common in old, neutered toms; cats "rarely, if ever, have rickets, rheumatism, chorea, tetanus, or become poisoned by snake bites"; morphine crazes...
...work together in taking care of the fluids of the body. In good health, fluid swallowed as drink or inj food is absorbed from the lower intestine into the lymph system, into the blood stream. Most fluid which the blood does not require strains through the kidneys into the bladder. Any clogging of the kidneys causes a back pressure of blood in the arteries and heart...
Year ago this brown-haired wife of the world's most prominent publisher met Dr.Max Thorek, Chicago gall bladder exciser. Dr. Thorek saw in Mrs. Hearst a likely patroness for a new International College of Surgeons which he was to help an old Manhattan friend, Dr. Harold Lyons Hunt, get on its feet in the face of denunciation by the American Medical Association's mouthpiece, Dr. Morris Fishbein...
...acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
...throw light on causes rather than provide materials" (TIME, May 1, 1933). Nonetheless, acetylcholine, typical object of what Nobel Prizewinners Dale & Loewi call autopharmacology, is being used by enterprising doctors to treat arterial hypertension, inflamed arteries, gangrene of feet and hands, profuse sweating in tuberculosis, flaccidity of the bladder and intestines, bed sores...