Word: ulcerating
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...voice of Senator T. Coleman du Pont of Delaware was heard on the Senate floor. Illness kept him absent most of last term. Now Senator du Pont's own voice will never be heard again. He was reported convalescent in Manhattan last week after an operation for ulcer of the throat which necessitated removal or derangement of his vocal chords and adjacent portions of his tongue and windpipe. An artificial larynx was installed...
Senator du Font's throat was diseased from a "throat ulcer." For this he consulted Dr. John E. Mackenty, senior surgeon at the Manhattan hospital, who is famed for his technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...
Died. Eki Hioki, 64, onetime (1920) Japanese Ambassador to Germany; earlier Secretary to the Embassy at Washington; enthusiastic friend of the U. S.; at Tokyo, of stomach ulcer and kidney disease...
...Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had not realized that many people were as interested in the cinema-man's disease as in his personality. Indeed, so gauntly meagre were the hospital bulletins that an Italian correspondent cabled Mr. Valentino's malady as "appendicitis." Dr. Porzio was deceived. But no one in the U. S. explained...
...from 1885 until 1903 concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, until 1917 director of the Kneisel Quartet, of which the other three original members were Roth, Svecenski and Giese, since 1905 a professor at the Institute of Musical Art, Manhattan; at Manhattan after undergoing an operation for perforating ulcer of the intestines...