Word: rectum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...territory the spy was to acquire a dog. . . . The spy was provided with very thin paper and a small aluminum tube. The paper he covered with sketches and statistics; he rolled it up and slipped it into the tube, and the tube was inserted in the dog's rectum. . . . The trick was detected only through a grotesque accident...
...Steiner procured over 20 pounds of livers from persons who had died from cancer of the stomach, lung, esophagus, pancreas, rectum. All the livers were perfectly normal. He ground them, extracted the fat, dried the residue to "a flaky brown material with a disagreeable odor...
Siamese Twins are identical twins who are not completely separated. "True Siamese twins consist of two nearly complete individuals united obliquely side by side in the hip region. Internally there are two complete sets of viscera, except that there is usually a common rectum." Their organs are symmetrical, one heart slanting to the right, the other to the left. But for some mysterious reason, they are often very unlike in facial features and personality...
...Ewing firmly believes that all adults should have frequent medical examinations, so that young cancers, especially those of breast and skin, can be nipped in the bud. "Yet there are no early symptoms in cancer of the esophagus, stomach, rectum, intestines, pancreas, kidney, lungs, and other internal organs. ... In such cases . . . which constitute 65% of all cancers . . . little or nothing can be expected from curative medicine under any circumstances...
...Montefiore, world's largest private hospital for chronic diseases, Dr. Perla and co-workers collected 30 of the worst operative risks they could find-patients with advanced tuberculosis, cancer of the colon and rectum, glandular tumors. For five or six days before operation he gave them diets rich in protein and vitamins, plenty of salt and water, and injections of desoxycorticosterone. Injections were continued for two weeks after operation...