Word: peritoneum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peritoneal cavity and hooked this up with a quart flask containing mineral salts in the same concentration as they occur in the blood, plus antibiotics to check infection. The solution drained into the peritoneal cavity. There it picked up some of the barbiturates by osmosis through the peritoneum. The doctors then drained the fluid, now mixed with barbiturates, back into the flask. They repeated the process with fresh fluid about once an hour for 36 hours, using some 60 qt. of fluid...
...Stephens delivered the boy baby by Caesarean section. It took but a minute for him to tie off the Fallopian tubes with surgical thread, so that Mrs. Gonzales would not become pregnant again. Dr-Stephens closed the peritoneum (the membrane lining the abdominal cavity...
Again Dr. Stephens was in a dilemma. He felt that he could not defy the sister. He decided it would be quickest, and least dangerous for the patient, to reopen the peritoneum and untie the tubes. That is what...