Word: fistulae
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...right tonsil inside almost to the notch of her collarbone outside-came to Surgeon Elliott Carr Cutler. This was while he was in Cleveland last year, before he returned to Boston to succeed his old master, Surgeon Harvey Gushing at Harvard. Dr. Cutler cured the girl's cervical fistula by flushing it with a caustic fluid. He thus saved himself a laborious operation, the girl an ugly scar. The clean result, reproduced in other fistulous cases with similar sclerosing fluids, warranted reporting in the current American Journal of Surgery...
Using the brain-toughener on the fistulous young woman was a "hunch" the immediate success of which amazed Dr. Cutler and his young associate, Dr. Robert Milton Zollinger. Protecting her throat from the caustic effects of the fluid, they merely flushed out the fistula. The flushing burned the lining of the fistula. As the walls healed they grew together, closing the abnormal passage in the neck...
...another brilliant experiment, following the investigations of von Bischoff and Heidenhain, Pavloff was able to produce a fistula, or tube, connecting the stomach of a dog with the surface, keeping the animal free from pain and under the most normal conditions possible. By this means he studied the flow of the gastric and pancreatic juices under varying conditions, proving that the secretions vary in quantity, rate and digestive power with the nature of the food...