Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two operative ways of reaching the prostate to remove the enlarged portions: 1) by opening through the perineum (crotch); 2) by cutting through the abdomen, between the navel and the joint of the pubic bones, and opening the bladder.
Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons...
A potential of 103 billion dollars assembled in a Manhattan convention room last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. That sum is the major amount of life insurance held in the U. S.† In the past year alone, policies totalling 19.8 billions were...
Irénée du Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their...
In the ramshackle bacteriological laboratory of the rich University of Chicago, where often "rats destroy in a night the fruits of six months' work,"* Dr. Isidore Sydney Falk has discovered, the university announced last week, the germ which causes influenza. It is the polymorphous streptococcus. When the news reached...