Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From handsome Dr. Max Minor Peet of the Universityof Michigan, the Congressmen heard of cutting abdominal nerves which stimulate the kidneys, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, of cutting dorsal sympathetic nerves which affect the colon, rectum, bladder and genital organs. Dr. Peet operated thus on 60 patients to relieve their high blood pressure. Results...
...while money experts were raising their eyebrows at the company's shaky capital structure. Last March when Treasurer Hutchinson raised $25,000.000 at the phenomenally low interest rate of 2.65%, Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank, having heard that Mr. Hutchinson's gall bladder had been removed, was said to have remarked: "All I can say is that they didn...
...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...York State contains 700 known typhoid carriers. Few of them have "submitted to the operation for the removal of gall bladder, usually an effective procedure for ridding the system of typhoid germs. Hoping to persuade more to undergo cholecystectomy. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State Health Commissioner, last week announced that 91 New York typhoid carriers have had their gall bladders out during the past 15 years, and hence may live as they please, without official surveillance...
...Approximately 10% of children learn to control their bladder before they are one year old; 30% by their 18th month; 65% to 80% by the end of their second year...