Word: larynxes
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Such worms may travel from the intestines to the stomach whence they may be vomited, to the nose, to the middle ear, to the larynx where they occasionally cause fatal suffocation, to the common bile duct where they may cause jaundice, to the pancreas, to the vermiform appendix. A child who suffers from digestive disturbances, capricious appetite, abdominal pains, gas, vomiting, restlessness and irritability, itchy nose, grinding of the teeth, foul breath, headache, dizziness, cough, convulsions, anemia, peakedness may be suffering from roundworms...
...blow, strangulation, fall, crash or gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base...
Died. Dr. Elmer Isaac McKesson, 53, physician, pioneer inventor of gas and anesthesia appliances, an oxygen tent, an artificial larynx; of a kidney ailment; in Toledo, Ohio. He founded McKesson Appliance Co., one of the world's largest firms of its kind, died with one of his own oxygen masks on his face...
Everyone knows the rest: the swift, relentless progress of the disease, the evidence of a streptococcic infection, the edematous swelling of the larynx, the painful swallowing, the labored breathing and the agonizing death from suffocation...
...doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes infatuated with a ne'er-do-well surgeon...