Word: ulcers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Paul B. Hoeber, 53. longtime medical book publisher, founder of the unique Annals of Medical History; of perforated stomach ulcer, after nine weeks' hospitalization; in Manhattan...
...September 1914 the appendix of Prince Albert was removed, in 1917 he was operated upon for acute duodenal ulcer. Despite these gastric difficulties, the Battle of Jutland found him in the "A" turret of H.M.S. Collingwood as that ship went into action. During the bombardment he coolly made hot cocoa for his fellow officers...
...giants have trouble with their feet. Robert Wadlow has no sensations of touch, pain or temperature in his feet. Says Dr. Humberd: "He is unaware of a wrinkle in his sock or a foreign body in his shoe until a blister, followed by an ulcer, is formed." His ears are oversize, his heart in proper proportion, genitalia small but normal...
Even here his affinity for anecdotes pursued him. His voluble housekeeper (whose father had worked in a gasworks and naturally died of a gastric ulcer) complained that her niece insisted on becoming a nurse, so "I always tells her that's just the job for her, as she has got a heart like a flint, and she loves the sight of blood...
...drug which cured young Roosevelt seems to be a specific cure for all streptococcic infections-septic sore throat, childbed fever, postabortal septicemia. It has helped to cure cases of peritonitis due to ruptured appendix, perforated stomach ulcer or gallbladder. It has been effective in postoperative wounds, endocarditis, suppurative mastoiditis, and tonsillitis. Some cases of erysipelas (also a streptococcic infection) have yielded to Prontosilmedication. The drug also has ameliorated severe cases of carbuncles and cellulitis due to staphylococcus, a different kind of germ...