Word: lesion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Osteopath Wilson is a graduate doctor of medicine and has done research at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he believes in the "osteopathic lesion." This "lesion" is supposed to be a mechanical maladjustment of a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue in the body. By correcting such lesions by might and main osteopaths claim that they can cure virtually all diseases. Thus in Manhattan last week they reported the following cases...
...Enlargement of the primary mole with subsequent ulceration that may heal incompletely and weep or bleed intermittently. This may lead the patient to consult a physician, who excises the lesion with a good margin of healthy tissue. The wound heals and the patient may remain well for a number of years. . . . Subsequently, however, recurrence takes place. Following this there is a rapid downhill course with widespread distant metastases [secondary cancers in other parts of the body...
...Weston State Hospital last week Dr. John Edward Offner, the wise superintend ent, quickly abandoned the theory that sexual stirrings in adolescent Teresa Hawkins caused her hysteria. He well knew that a lesion in the brain or a lesion in the abdomen could produce the same kind of false laughter. Upon examining Teresa Hawkins, Dr. Offner found that an appendectomy had resulted in abdominal adhesions. These affected both her diaphragm and womb, put a strain upon her constitution which she withstood until her shorthand studies exhausted her. Then she lost all emotional control. Soon as Dr. Offner performed a second...
...cult started with the single theory that all disease was caused by malposition of bones and could be cured by manipulation of joints. After 43 years of osteopathic education, osteopaths still do not understand, said Dr. Conley, exactly what happens in the tissues as a result of an osteopathic lesion, as well as the physiological reactions following its correction...
...good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid least possibility risking any lesion to lung. An incision about four to five inches long on left lower abdomen was made through which an L-shaped stone was removed from lower part left ureter in about 12 minutes. Thorough exploration of entire ureter upwards to kidney, downwards to urinary bladder and careful repair wound required...