Word: buttocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased him and his crew back where they came from, "and hurt the generall in the buttock with an arrow...
Each of Dr. Mahoney's patients was given an injection of 25,000 units of penicillin in the buttock muscles every four hours. Each received 48 injections. After 16 hours of treatment, the corkscrew-shaped spirochetes no longer showed up under the microscope in serum from the lesion. Dr. Mahoney was "stunned"; this is the first case on record in which penicillin has killed spirochetes, a higher form of life than bacilli. Yet the patients had no bad reaction from the injections...
...battle he had 68 cases of chest and abdominal wounds-right down his alley. The portable took care of them so fast that no serious peritonitis developed. They were only a small part of the wounded. Most of the cases were less dangerous- arm, leg, back or buttock wounds. There was only one amputation. Major Swinton's portable had to dig four wells on their bit of dry land before they found a place that was not full of dead Japs...