Word: tumorous
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...early 1840s,'dashing young Dr. Long sniffed ether at parties, but was clear-headed enough to notice that his drunken friends, if they came to blows, felt no pain. So one day in 1842, he fearfully soaked a towel in ether, anesthetized a friend before removing a tumor...
Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg...
Then the picture changed. This fall Conductor Klemperer was rushed off to Boston to be operated on for a brain tumor. By this month his health had become so precarious that he had to give up his conducting plans for the season. With the health of their orchestra also precarious, the board of directors decided on a desperate blood transfusion: an injection of high-spending cultural barbarians among their own withering shirt fronts. Last week, while the starchier board members still creaked and grumbled, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced: 1) a move from Los Angeles' solemn, downtown Philharmonic Auditorium...
...unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection, for the anesthetic needle may pick up cancerous cells and start the "seeding" of tumors, or it may injure healthy cells and make them prey for dangerous bacteria already lodging in the body...
Three hours after the operation began, when Dr. Olivecrona was delicately prying out the red tumor from the flaccid tissue of Karinthy's cerebellum, the poet lost consciousness. Three weeks later, after an uneventful convalescence, happy Poet Karinthy went back to his Budapest cafés, heard no more nonexistent locomotives. But two-and-a-half years after his ordeal he died of a heart attack...