Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...About Bladder Surgery...
Like millions of Americans, I wish Senator Humphrey [Oct. 18] well. I am sure that in not too many weeks the Senator will be back in the mainstream of life. His misfortune in needing radical bladder surgery, and having public attention called to it, may turn out to be good fortune for thousands of others...
First Happy's and Betty's breasts and now Hubert Humphrey's bladder; thank God I'm not a public figure, or my private health would also be dissected by your literary scalpel...
...shortly be released from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous bladder and lymph nodes...
...Plumbing. To make up for the loss of the bladder, Whitmore had to install extensive new "plumbing." Taking the dangling ends of the ureters-the two tubes that normally carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder-he connected them to a piece of "piping" or conduit made by snipping out a small piece of bowel. While preparing the conduit, Whitmore and his colleagues had to work with exceptional care, keeping intact the blood vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical...