Word: fibroid
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Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
Nearly 1,000 Negro physicians, surgeons and dentists assembled last week in Philadelphia for the 42nd annual convention of the National Medical Association. As a symbol of interracial fraternity, Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, 46, gynecologist of New York City's Harlem Hospital, removed a multiple fibroid tumor from a patient in Philadelphia General Hospital, first piece of surgery ever performed by a Negro practitioner in that white hospital's long history...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, onetime wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, in Paris, following a para lytic stroke; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, in New Haven, Conn., following removal of fibroid tumor; King Camp Gillette, 77, razor tycoon, in Los Angeles...
...becoming adapted to life in the hot regions. The expedition's report in regard to Onchocerciasis written at Moca, Guatemala, states that "Public health procedure should include inspection of the inhabitants in the endemic districts and the diagnosis of the cases with filarial tumors with prompt removal of the fibroid growths. The operations are simple and easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon, he should be isolated and not allowed to reside in a region where the Eusimulium concerned in the transmission prevail. Since the microfilariae do not disappear immediately following...
...stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia. Before deciding that...