Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levitation, until now just a cartoonist's gag, a magician's stunt or a children's trick, gained medical respectability last week with the publication of "the case of the flying pig" in The Lancet, most eminent of medical journals...
...patients are often right, and his professional colleagues are too often wrong, says Surgeon Moore in the medical journal Lancet. At United Manchester Hospitals he has seen 33 cases of bladder-neck obstruction in women, caused by essentially the same process as prostatitis in men. Four responded to careful medical treatment, but in 29 cases he operated to clear the obstruction by removing pieces of excess tissue in the analogous glands...