Word: bowel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with what Dr. Curt Ries diagnosed as agranulocytosis. The condition, characterized by the body's inability to produce white blood cells, had left Strom weak and feverish and with so severe an infection in his rectal area that doctors were forced to perform a colostomy, bypassing his lower bowel...
...catch fish, using a homemade spear fashioned from gadgetry in his wife's sewing basket. Obliging sea turtles, apparently attracted to the dinghy in hopes of mating with it, added to the larder. They also enabled Lyn, a nurse by profession, to administer turtle-oil enemas to restore bowel movements. Finally, after 37 days at sea, the six castaways were picked up by a passing Japanese tuna boat...
...health services-and eventually to a large segment of the American public. When President Eisenhower had his first heart attack in 1955, his personal physicians turned naturally to White as a consultant. Describing the President's recovery to the press, he spoke freely of the patient's bowel movements. To many, this was shocking, but White, a sage and proper Yankee, was speaking with a purpose: he was getting across to a mass audience the value of normal body functions as a sign of a cardiac patient's recovery. White was often accused of sensationalism and publicity...
They can also perforate the bowel. But Bennett says that he is unconcerned...
Harris' plan borrows heavily from programs already in operation to rehabilitate victims of breast, bowel and larynx cancer following surgery. But it differs from them in an important respect. It concentrates on patients whose cancers probably cannot be cured-and who are therefore likely to be distrustful of anyone who attempts to cheer them...