Word: diverticulum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with diet, says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...