Word: colon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...
...Joseph tried out his theory on dogs and rabbits, then further on humans. Last week the Lancet summarized his findings. When he soiled the peritoneum without allowing bleeding, during an operation on the colon, eleven out of twelve animals developed peritonitis. When fresh blood was injected into the cavity, only one in four became infected and adhesions were notably few. On human patients 200 cc. of blood run through a tube into the abdominal cavity at the end of the operation produced favorable recoveries...
...small tubelike growth which projects from the large intestine near the spot where the large and small intestines meet. The appendix is from a quarter to a half-inch thick, and from three to four inches long. All but the last inch or so ... is usually attached to the colon so that it must be carefully removed...
...appendix is carefully removed from the side of the colon . . . and now it is lifted out, the open end still clamped tightly shut by the hemostat...
...Montefiore, world's largest private hospital for chronic diseases, Dr. Perla and co-workers collected 30 of the worst operative risks they could find-patients with advanced tuberculosis, cancer of the colon and rectum, glandular tumors. For five or six days before operation he gave them diets rich in protein and vitamins, plenty of salt and water, and injections of desoxycorticosterone. Injections were continued for two weeks after operation...