Word: tumorous
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...therefore direct that it be severed from my body and delivered to the said Dr. Gushing." At the Yale Medical School famed Brain Surgeon Gushing, father-in-law of James Roosevelt, said he was already working on Mrs. Glogau's brain which had been marred by a tumor of the pituitary gland...
...that state she was carried to the University of Vienna's gynecological clinic directed by Dr. Wilhelm Weibel. To his trained eye the woman was in a state of eclampsia. Her baby had become a deadly living tumor in her womb, was poisoning her to death. A caesarean section was plainly in order. Dr. Weibel had the woman placed on an operating table and prepared. His assistant, Dr. Ernst Preissecker, loaded a sterilized portable cinema camera to photograph Dr. Weibel at work for the benefit of medical students...
...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...
...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...