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Word: rectum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded in 1892. During his 30 years at Hopkins he achieved fame as the inventor of various modern kidney, uterine and ovarian operations, as a pioneer in the use of cocaine anesthesia, as the inventor of the Kelly cystoscope and proctoscope, instruments for examining the bladder and rectum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers & Sons | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...There are 23 different places in the body where various kinds of cancers occur. Examination for cancer should include search of the skin, mouth, throat, lungs, stomach & bowels, rectum, prostate, uterus and breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Club | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...would sit in a cape and large felt hat, ordering rarebits and English ale, rolling his own cigarets. He preferred the circus to the opera, and disliked listening to music, though he accepted several jobs writing music criticism for Paris publications. He finally succumbed to cancer of the rectum one spring when Big Bertha was dropping shells into Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Impressionist | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature. In 1923 Dr. James Taylor Gwathmey of Manhattan proposed another combination of drugs for "synergistic anesthesia." He produced drowsiness and anesthesia by injecting morphine and epsom salts into the mother's muscles, quinine, alcohol and ether in olive oil into the rectum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Childbirth: Nature v. Drugs | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

From handsome Dr. Max Minor Peet of the Universityof Michigan, the Congressmen heard of cutting abdominal nerves which stimulate the kidneys, adrenals, spleen, pancreas, liver, stomach and intestines, of cutting dorsal sympathetic nerves which affect the colon, rectum, bladder and genital organs. Dr. Peet operated thus on 60 patients to relieve their high blood pressure. Results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nerve Congress | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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