Word: rectum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the caption of "Pranksters" in the Miscellany column, p. 30, issue of Aug. 13, you report the blowing up of one Jaspara Servia by employes of the Erie Railroad. In the first place, your caption is all wrong?"Assaulters" is the proper descriptive term. The inflation, per rectum, of persons employed in steel mills and railroad yards is not uncommon, as I have heard of many such assaults and have, on one occasion, treated such a case. Needless to say that my patient died?deliberately murdered by those you term "Pranksters," and from all the records I have...
...only conceivable that a pressure of 110 lb., or even much less, introduced per rectum, must rupture the bowels or cause such a compression on the diaphragm as to rupture even through that...
...Hiltons also cited the case of Rosa-&-Josepha Blazek, who were joined back to back, had one vagina, one rectum, but two uteri. Rosa bore a son whom both nursed. Later the pair were reported to have married one man. The 1918 epidemic of influenza killed them, aged 40, while in Chicago...
...surgeons reported a total of 24,448 five-year cures. Of the total 7,990 have been cancer of the womb, 8,051 cancer of the breast, 1,506 cancer of the mouth and lip, 1,124 cancer of the skin, 2,067 cancer of the colon and rectum. The knife, x-ray and radium effected these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction had occurred. This was the point which the surgeons wanted impressed on everyone. Dr. Robert Battey Greenough of Boston, who later in the week was elected 1934 president...
...trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum. Then he solders up the hole. The method Dr. Alvarez prefers gives the stomach an artificial outlet. The ulcerated section...