Word: bladders
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...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...
...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...
...elegant carriage" with a span of Kentucky-blooded horses and two slaves, largest fee on record up to 1822. There is no public record of who held the hands of James K. Polk when Dr. McDowell repaired a rupture and removed a stone from the future President's bladder...
...possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder; profuse menstrual bleeding; secondary anemia. Iron for the anemia, thyroid extract for the other "capricious vagaries" brought, said Dr. Lisser, "magical relief...
Shrewdest aspect of the Libman treatment is his attention to the gall bladder, Gall bladder troubles affect the heart through sympathetic nerves. They also lead to gout. The heart can become as gouty as the big toe and can be as thoroughly cleared of gout by adequate attention to the gall bladder...