Word: spleens
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...fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz, can be deposited at will in the liver, spleen, bone marrow...
When a professionally partisan trial lawyer such as Manhattan's Lloyd Paul Stryker turns biographer, he also turns defense counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...attitude expressed by the head of a large producer cooperative in Minnesota was put in these startling words: "When there is enough butter, there is too much!" Mr. Ball ought to realize that the farmers have been on a sit-down strike, too . . . and vent a little of his spleen on them...
...year-old patient had a huge tumor that had engulfed his stomach and part of his upper abdomen. Dr. Brunschwig removed: 1) the stomach, 2) half the left lobe of the liver, 3) the body and tail of the pancreas, 4) the spleen, 5) the transverse colon (a section of the large intestine), 6) part of the abdominal wall. Then he connected the esophagus with what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly...
...Brunschwig's radical surgery, 34 died within a month. But 49 were greatly helped; of these 19 are still alive, one to ten years after their operations. Among them: a 50-year-old laborer who can do a full day's work though he lacks stomach and spleen...