Word: rectally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aminophylline, a valuable drug for treatment of asthma, can be dangerous when given by mouth or intravenously. For convenience, many doctors have taken to giving it to children in rectal suppositories, but this too can be hazardous, warned Detroit's Dr. Anthony C. Nolke. In the A.M.A. Journal he reported 21 cases of severe illness (vomiting, raging thirst and maniacal agitation) and four deaths from...
...method for determining almost exactly the minute of death has been developed by Drs. Herbert P. Lyle and Frank P. Cleveland of the Hamilton County, Ohio coroner's office. Old methods relied on stage of rigor mortis, state of putrefaction, and rectal temperature changes in the corpse. The Cincinnati doctors told the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists last week that a thin thermometer inserted into the brain will produce a series of constant readings for 24 hours following death, since heat loss in brain tissue occurs according to a predictable formula...
...White: We expect, as I have already said, we expect to have fever-a little fever. And this is just according to Hoyle . . . We measured rectally. Until yesterday afternoon about 5, he had no fever above the top normal. But, as we expected yesterday afternoon late, he had a rectal temperature of 101.4. A rectal temperature is 1° higher, normally, than a mouth temperature, so that would be the equivalent of 100.4 by mouth. So that was the highest temperature...
...America basketball player, star of the 1932 Olympics (javelin, 80-meter hurdles, high jump), winner of all amateur golf titles and queen of the lady professionals. After the Beaumont tournament, Babe entered a hospital for a checkup, and doctors ordered her prepared for surgery. Medical diagnosis: a rectal malignancy. Athletic prognosis: the end of a fabulous career in big-time sports...
There were no spectators to get in the surgeon's way as he operated on a rectal fistula one morning last week at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "Yet 140 students watched his every move and each turn of the knife more closely than if they had been jostling each other and craning their necks to look over his arm. The students were in an auditorium, 100 yards away, watching the operation on color-television receivers...