Word: rectum
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...