Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sterilized, filtered and typed, just like ordinary blood. Transfusions have been given to nine patients suffering from such diverse ailments as kidney infections, alcoholism, malaria, cancer and gunshot wounds. One man even acted as his own dropsy donor, when Dr. Davis removed 34 ounces of fluid from his stomach, promptly pumped them back into...
...brain operations, but most of their patients died. In 1905 young Surgeon Harvey Williams Cushing penetrated this wilderness, and in 28 years, almost singlehanded, he perfected the technique of brain and nerve operations. Today, thanks to Dr. Cushing, an operation for brain tumor is no more dangerous than a stomach operation...
...illnesses in which the stomach rejects all food, Holy Communion may not be received, out of reverence for the Sacrament...
When she was two years old, Mrs. Agnes Gregory of Kansas City swallowed some lye, seared the delicate lining of her throat and gullet. The painful burns healed, but new scar tissue gradually filled in the passage to her stomach. After about 25 years, her gullet was so constricted that Mrs. Gregory could swallow only liquids. After 30 years she could swallow nothing...
Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled...