Word: viscera
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...grey cells in the cortex mull the influences of these stimuli, play with them, sometimes bury them as memories. If a physical reaction is wanted, consciously or subconsciously, the brain sends out its will by way of efferent nerves to the organs of expression, to the limbs, the viscera, the tongue, the hand...
...severe abdominal pain which fluctuates with attacks of migraine (megrim, hemicrania). These men, by brilliant studies, have shown that a certain syndrome of abdominal pain, where syphilitic spoors and exopthalmic goiter do not intrude, shows the symptoms of atypical migraine. The relationship between the brain and the abdominal viscera, in this disease, remains obscure. Four cases out of ten were operated upon, and the doctors found, as they expected, that there was nothing to explain the pains. Cathartics would do no good here...
...small ships not so apt to convey an undesirable odor from the galley. Cases that persist in spite of simple remedial measures, demand careful examination. A slight pre-existing cardiac incompetence may be aggravated by the efforts of vomiting and may cause a passive congestion of the abdominal viscera, with deficient oxygenation of those tissues. This has been shown to be productive per se of nausea and vomiting, both experimentally and clinically. Careful questioning and search must be made to rule out chronic inflammatory foci, as well as kidney calculus and other diseases of the urinary tract. In women, diseases...
...well-known how Mr. Mencken sticks stray figurative pins into the viscera of the age. And in the pricking he seems sometimes to follow an aimless aim; which is perfectly all right because he himself will retort that most purposes are eminent purposeless. And what he says he believes to be true. That all too human adjective belies his paradox...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Specificity of Agglutinins, with Special Reference to B. Typhosus." Dr. M. J. Rosenau. "Lesions of the Trunk Viscera in Cases of Epilepsy." Dr. A. E. Taft. "Recent Work on Dysentery Toxin and the Nervous System." Drs. F. R. Sims and E. E. Southard. Lecture Room, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P. M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...