Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...
This is history told by a masseur who sometimes snooped. The late Heinrich Himmler believed that his frequent, gnawing stomach pains could be relieved by massage. He went to a masseur named Felix Kersten, who now, through Himmler's thoughts-while-being-rubbed, tells what the peace might have been had Germany...
...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...
Brunschwig's methods include massive transfusions (as much as twelve pints of blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...