Word: buttocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood serum. Professors Howard Anderson McCordock and Walter Joseph Siebert of Washington University, who led in developing this blood treatment, last week admitted that they do not yet know whether it does any good. But they do not know anything else to do, and are hopeful...
...from shoulder. Rise slightly on the toes, bend the knees slowly, tilt the trunk forward as the leg muscles lower the body onto the chair. Do not start to sit down with the feet together. This "closed foot position forces the trunk into an extreme diagonality [and] brings the buttock mass into unbeautiful prominence. It protrudes as if searching for the seat...
When the child was one year old, she received toxin-antitoxin against diphtheria. The serum came from a horse. Last year she was exposed to diphtheria. The doctor injected a protective dose of antitoxin (derived from a horse) in her left buttock. The part swelled. Three days later the doctor found diphtheria germs in cultures from her nose and throat, and at once gave her a large dose of antitoxin in the right buttock. That antitoxin also came from a horse. The left buttock was still swollen. Within a few days the right buttock swelled and, as the days passed...
Some of the wounds they deal with: "One buttock is lacerated; bleeding has stopped, but he is in a horrible mess . . . There is a hole above the temple as big as an apple. His closed eyes bulge under blue lids; his puffy face is green. He has torn away the bandage, his fingers pluck at his curly black hair that is clotted with blood and dirt, they pluck at the rim of the wound. His torn brain pulses, partly exposed-like a red brown overcrusted cushion filling and deflating in frantic recurrence. . . . His head is a black lump with bloodstreams...
...Park of the New York Health Department. Thirty cubic centimetres of blood are drawn from the elbow of a person who has had measles, are injected into the child. If the child is over five years old the dose is doubled Half of the blood goes into the right buttock, half into the left. Consequences: a mild, immunizing case of measles, an inability to sit comfortably for a few hours. Due to the prevalence of measles, some communities have, to a large extent, immunized themselves. But when they remain untouched over long periods of time they provide fertile fields...