Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two operative ways of reaching the prostate to remove the enlarged portions: 1) by opening through the perineum (crotch); 2) by cutting through the abdomen, between the navel and the joint of the pubic bones, and opening the bladder.
In Buenos Aires, Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King...
Enlargement of the prostate by chronic inflammation is a common ailment of elderly men. It is probably not a tumor process. Although it makes the victims uneasy and uncomfortable, it is rarely painful. Authorities estimate that one of three males over 60, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. Gonorrhea in early manhood...
Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons...
A potential of 103 billion dollars assembled in a Manhattan convention room last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. That sum is the major amount of life insurance held in the U. S.† In the past year alone, policies totalling 19.8 billions were...