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...John Medaris, the U.S. Army and its missilemen "were in the position of a patient that has been given a death sentence by the doctor -but we kind of refused to die." How the Army patient survived to launch the first successful U.S. satellite is a history of groans, gall-and grit...
...Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened her abdomen. Her womb was normal, but he detected bile stains and inflammation around her gall bladder. He opened the bladder, took out a gallstone, closed the bladder, flushed it with an antibiotic solution. The patient made a good recovery and went home within a week...
...only temporary relief, and Helen had to have repeated transfusions to keep her stock of red blood cells anywhere near normal. When she was ten, doctors figured that Helen had about two months to live. That was 17 years ago, but she fooled them. Later, a surgeon, removing her gall bladder at St. Louis' Christian Hospital, found seven satellite spleens scattered through her body, hopefully took them...
Other Cancers. For the first time Drs. Hammond and Horn found a significant tie between cigarette smoking and cancer in other sites: the pancreas, where the death rate goes up 50%; the kidneys, up 58%; the stomach, up 61%; the prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
...Cattell, who operated on Eden four years ago for a gall bladder condition, said he would have no statement on his condition until tomorrow...