Word: viscera
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...longtime preservation, removal of the vital organs is not necessary. Carbolic acid, however, dissolves gas in the body and the abdomen is then likely to collapse. This can be corrected by packing the abdominal cavity with cotton. Whether or not Lenin's viscera have been tampered with, his brain was removed, dissected into thousands of pieces, some of which were sent to Paris and Berlin. The Lenin brain cells, it appeared, were much larger than normal...
Acne also seems to be associated with sagging viscera, sluggish bowels, and intestinal toxemia. There is an acne bacillus. But it probably merely thrives on the disease, does not cause...
...moving conveyance when the head is directed toward the direction of motion. . . . "The only possible influence on the body that could be affected by the position of the head in a moving conveyance would be the action of gravity on the blood flow or tension on the viscera, but most of the traveling speeds are insufficient to have any appreciable effect in this regard. . . . For the present, therefore, it appears that placing the head in the direction of motion on a train, ambulance or even ships at sea is purely a habit or tradition...
...last scene Morris supervises an operation on his own punctured viscera, an operation which only can be successful through the new Steiglitz Technique. It was light, and frankly, we found it a very satisfying picture...
When the device is in operation the patient stands so that the x-rays throw shadows of his bones and viscera upon a fluoroscopic screen. A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells. One cell responds only to heavy shadows, another to light shadows, the third to medium greys. In turn one cell activates a red neon tube, another a yellow helium tube, the third a blue mercury tube. Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image...