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...might be kept alive for several years by operations more drastic than any so far attempted. He began, usually in cases of stomach cancer, by removing most of the stomach, half of the left lobe of the liver, the body and tail of the pancreas, the spleen, the transverse colon and part of the abdominal wall. Of the first 100 patients, 19 lived for one to ten years, including a laborer who went back to doing a full day's work (TIME, March...
...several bacteria can cause pyelonephritis, but the worst offender is the colon bacillus. In women, infection is often precipitated by pregnancy; in men, by a kidney stone or prostate trouble. In many cases, pyelonephritis persists over many years. As the kidneys eventually lose their filtering efficiency, the patient may die of uremic poisoning...
Across the line, Panama City (pop. 273,000) and Colon (pop. 60,000) are crowded and shabby, and the people are poor. The 15,000 Panamanians who work in the Zone do considerably better, with an average annual income of $2,200. But they complain about discriminatory pay scales for equal jobs and other "exploitation," past and present. Only in 1955 did the U.S. abolish the humiliating "gold" and "silver" drinking fountains, toilets and pay lines -segregation dating back to canal-building days when Panamanians were paid in silver, Americans in gold...
...saturated with germs that no count could be made. Another 63 averaged 16,527 germs per square centimeter, but even worse than the germs' quantity was their quality. Half the towels were loaded with staphylococci, which cause boils and wound infections. A third of the towels bore colon bacteria, which spread dysentery, typhus and typhoid...
With the lower colon inactivated, surgeons removed the cancer. Apparently it had not spread. As a further precaution, Radiologist Orville Meland of the Los Angeles Tumor Institute implanted platinum needles containing tiny radium pellets. "For the next six months we simply waited," Powell recalls. "I had a lot of examinations but led a reasonably normal life. I did quite a few radio shows, though I couldn't make movies. The worst thing about the situation was the esthetics...