Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Last week when 3,000 fellows of the American College of Surgeons surged into Boston for their 24th convention, they crowded instructive lectures about stomach wrinkles, minced glands and many another subject (see p. 35). But none of these topics provided the assembled surgeons with the practical interest that Dr. Herbert Lester Charles Johnson packed into his lecture on the use of concentrated amniotic fluid as a preventive of peritonitis...
...demonstrations more and more hormones have been discovered. They occur in the pineal gland in the middle of the brain; in the pituitary gland under the forebrain; in the thyroid, parathyroids and thymus in the neck; in the adrenals on top of the kidneys; in the pancreas at the stomach; in the stomach and intestines; in the ovaries and testicles. These hormones always work together. The pattern of their complicated interbalance makes every human being precisely what he is. The balance changes during life, making the baby a boy, the boy a youth, the youth...
...Stomach ulcers forced Harry Harkness Flagler to resign last week. Marshall Field III was promptly elected president by a board which has learned to respect his quick decisions, his progressive ideas...
Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce, and dumped it. He made a new batch and served it to the hospital employes. Thirteen took sick with violent stomach aches...