Word: rectally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toma uses no special technique on the oldsters. Examples of the notable surgery he has performed: a 2½-hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...
...salt-drip injection-one teaspoon of salt in a liter of boiled water. But the Mâcon Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water-and given the solution as a rectal drip. Could such a strong salt dose have killed 17 women? Some of the detective's medical consultants thought it could (the victims' symptoms resembled those of shipwrecked sailors who drink sea water...
...first warning came from a Norwalk, Conn, hospital. Three baby boys, after being dosed with Analbis rectal suppositories, came down with violent poisoning symptoms-vomiting, cramps, drowsiness, convulsions. One was saved by an antitoxin and the other two died of liver poisoning. The drug's manufacturers promptly stopped shipments...
...outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went unexamined...
...pros & cons, from which a surgeon may choose. For abdominal operations, for example, some surgeons prefer a spinal anesthetic. Other surgeons avoid spinals because they entail a somewhat greater risk of complications (e.g., occasional paralyses, persistent headaches and other late effects) than anesthetic gases. Many patients prefer the new rectal anesthetics because they leave none of the aftereffects which ether usually produces. Some doctors contend that nearly all the unpleasant effects of ether (vomiting, nausea, etc.) can be avoided if the anesthetist is properly skilled...