Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic perfection. A resection of the stomach by a master like Mayo, widely excising the diseased part, restoring continuity and function, all so deftly, and beautiful in its beneficent invasion and conquest, is a magnificent epitome of the surgical art. " 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,' but only the surgeon knows how uneasy...
...Central Islip, L. I.'s hospital for the insane a doctor extracted from the stomach of a woman inmate 48 teaspoons, two bolts & nuts, a large screw, a needle, a pencil, a piece of glass, said that the 48 teaspoons had been stacked neatly in her stomach...
...three years Dr. Beaumont tried to close the hole in the boy's stomach. Ultimately a flap grew over the hole and retained food in the stomach. But any time he wished Dr. Beaumont could push the flap away and see what was going on within the stomach. This inquisitiveness made him think of starting a research within the processes of digestion, concerning which knowledge was hypothetical. Alexis St. Martin grew impatient with the experiments, ran away to his Canadian home, married, and fathered two children before Beaumont could find him, through fur trappers...
...Beaumont was unable to do everything he wished with St. Martin's stomach. Shortly after the book's publication the French Canadian returned home for good. Dr. Beaumont ultimately resigned from the Army medical corps, established himself in St. Louis. There his reputation as a peerer into organs threw him into court. He had trephined a broken skull. Hostile doctors testified that he had done so to see what was going on in the dying man's brain. The court acquitted Dr. Beaumont. In 1853, aged 67, he slipped on an icy flight of steps, developed...
Last week at Evanston, Ill. died another hero in stomach annals: Ajax, 9, a dog whose stomach Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy cut out six years ago to demonstrate that in necessity a person could thrive without that apparatus...