Word: blitzsten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abdominal condition which he did not mention two of his Chicago colleagues, Dr. N. Lionel Blitzsten and Dr. William A. Brams, have been dealing with. That is, the severe abdominal pain which fluctuates with attacks of migraine (megrim, hemicrania). These men, by brilliant studies, have shown that a certain syndrome of abdominal pain, where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine. The relationship between the brain and the abdominal viscera, in this disease, remains obscure. Four cases out of ten were operated upon, and the doctors found, as they expected, that there...
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