Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long had Senator Thaddeus Horatius? Caraway of Arkansas been bothered with a stone in the kidney. Fortnight ago he entered St. Vincent's Infirmary at Little Rock to have it cut out. Last week he was convalescing comfortably after the operation when an old friend, with a jug of cider, called on him at the hospital...
Followed an explanation of urinary surgery, by Dr. Arthur Henry Bitrgess of Manchester, England. An important point: catheterization for urinary retention is a dangerous procedure The retention causes a back pressure against the kidneys, which adjust themselves to the abnormal condition. Perspiration removes sufficient water from the body to maintain a satisfactory state of invalidism. Catheterization suddenly relieves the kidneys of back pressure, causes kidney injuries and, usually, a fatal kidney bleeding. In aged persons is this fact especially...
Often it is difficult to distinguish the pains of appendicitis from those of tuberculosis, pneumonia or pleurisy. Actinomycosis, a fungus infection which causes abscesses, may simulate appendicitis. A mistake in diagnosis may result from the presence of colic of the bile or of the kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, stricture of the right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread...
Died. Ralph Harman Booth, 57, U. S. Minister to Denmark; of heart dis ease and a kidney ailment; in Bad Gastein, Austria. An oldtime journalist, he be came editor and publisher in 1904 of the Detroit Tribune, founded Booth News papers Inc. with his brother George G. Booth. As president of the chain he con trolled eight Michigan newspapers...
Died? Howard Trumbo, 56, president of Cuban-American Mining Co. (manganese), onetime president of the American Club in Havana, classmate of Herbert Clark Hoover (1895) at Stanford University.; of a kidney ailment; in Havana...