Word: uterus
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...fungus grows on the rye head and eats away the grains. What is left is a collection of hard bodies, each shaped like a cock's spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur). Good, dry ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland and Russia...
Pituitary Hormones. Pituitrin, extract of the hazelnut-like gland at the underside of the brain, does three things to a body: 1) it causes powerful contractions of the pregnant uterus at term (its oxytocic effect); 2) it makes blood pressure (its pressor effect); 3) it increases urinary flow where urine is scanty and decreases it where the flow is inordinately great, as in diabetes insipidus (its diuretic-anti-diuretic effect). So there must be more than one hormone in the pituitary gland, decided Dr. Oliver Kamm, director of Parke. Davis & Co.'s research laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation...
...attacks every kind of vertebrate-fish, reptile, bird and animal. Domesticated animals acquire it-dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, hogs, cattle. They, like humans, may suffer variously from tuberculosis of the lungs (phthisis, pulmonary tuberculosis), of the intestinal tract, lymphatic glands, serous membranes, bones, skin, brain, Fallopian tubes, uterus, spleen. But whether, except in the case of milk-yielding cows, they can transmit tuberculosis to humans is still a moot point in medicine...
Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...
...stage, found in the uncooked or poorly cooked pork. When eaten, the cysts are destroyed by the digestive juices, and in two or three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies. In from six to ten days, the embryos are discharged from the uterus of the female worm into the lumen [passageway] of the intestine or into the lymphatics of the intestinal wall. These embryos wander with lymph or blood to the various parts of the body, the majority reaching the striated [banded] muscle and there developing into encysted larvae...