Word: tumorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than 50 years since I first heard that piece of medical history but I recall that father, when speaking of the amazing bravery and endurance of the patient, always emphasized the fact that she rode on horseback for 60 miles with that tumor resting on the pommel of the saddle...
...Danville last week members of the Kentucky State Medical Association dedicated a monument to a woman because she survived an operation. It is the only recorded tribute of its kind, commemorating as it does the first successful removal of an ovarian tumor. That operation in turn marked the real beginning of abdominal surgery...
...Greentown, 60 miles across country, to deliver a Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford. Dr. McDowell, a big, vigorous man, rode over to Greentown. Two attending physicians assured him that Mrs. Crawford carried twins. He made an examination per vaginam, soon ascertained that she was not pregnant but had a large tumor in the abdomen which moved easily from side to side...
...good. Your situation is deplorable. John Bell, Hunter, Hey and A. Wood, four of the first and most eminent surgeons in England and Scotland, have uniformly declared in their lectures that such is the danger of peritoneal inflammation, that opening the abdomen to extract a tumor is inevitable death. Notwithstanding this, if you think yourself prepared to die, I will take the lump from you, if you can come to Danville...
Explanations: The uninjured parts of her brain have assumed the work of the excised part; remaining bits of the thinking part of her brain, now unencumbered by the tumor, serve her adequately; her unusual ability to concentrate may be due to a lack of mental side channels characteristic of whole-brained individuals...