Word: lesions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a clear-minded Cleveland diagnostician, Dr. Edward Elbert Woldman, 41, last week came a simple method of detecting gastrointestinal lesions in from two to six hours. He dissolves a pinch of the common cathartic, phenolphthalein, in a third of an ounce of alcohol, dilutes it with two-thirds of an ounce of water, has the patient drink the mixture on an empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue...
Having devised this simple indicator of lesions within the digestive tract, Dr. Woldman at present is trying to devise a measure of the lesion's size. Wrote he: "There is some evidence that the quantity of phenolphthalein excreted may have a relation to the size of the lesion...
...phenolphthalein would, of course, penetrate any lesion in the mucosa. To test for intestinal lesion a patient who had a carcinoma of the mouth, Dr. Woldman piped the drug by that lesion through a straw...
...MacDonald, however, brought U. S. osteopaths something far more useful to them than gloss. The greatest weakness in their theory that "one of the primary causes of disease [is] a mechanical maladjustment ['osteopathic lesion'] of some sort which . . . may be found in a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue," has been that no osteopath was ever able to produce a lesion in any creature by a scientifically impeccable experiment. Osteopath Louisa Burns of South Pasadena, Calif, claimed to do so, but could not convince sceptics. Dr. MacDonald appeared at Chicago last week with X-ray and documentary proofs...
...colitis, "check with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath and complains of sciatica, and sometimes she prefers to keep her sciatica and remain sterile...