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Word: bowel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgery he has performed: a 2½-hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Operating on Oldsters | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

After the bowel recovers from laxative irritation, it can get along with very little help: the methylcellulose can be cut down from 16 tablets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: By Bulk | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...study of mental illness did not make much progress in the 19th Century. Victorian doctors, concentrating on the microscope and on the autopsy table, were determined to find a physical reason for every illness. Fascinated by blood, bone and bowel, they decided that neuroses were caused by upset "nerves" or "brain." The treatment of mental illness lagged-with a few exceptions-until fairly recent times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...road to intestinal purgatory is paved with purgatives. . . . The bowel becomes dazed and dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Am I, Doctor? | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Nonessential Stomach | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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