Word: abscessed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nose was held. He got an enema every other day, vitamin injections daily. His limbs were massaged regularly. Day and night for seven years, he was shifted every half hour from one position to another to keep his circulation unimpaired. When, in the second year, he developed an abscess, he was operated on without anesthesia. In the fourth year he was cured of pneumonia with penicillin...
Another fallacy: "It is surprising how often you hear people remark behind the back of a patient suffering from neurotic anxieties or neurotic mood disorders, 'If he only pulled himself together-surely he could help it!' . . . Nobody would ever think that an abscess of the gall bladder can be treated by pulling oneself together, but not many people are prepared to look at nervous anxiety states with the same attitude . . . Many religious people use towards a neurotic patient a kind of spiritual approach of 'Pull yourself together!' ... By this attitude religion becomes a sort of mental...
...Hollywood, tearful Crooner Johnnie Ray went under a surgeon's knife for treatment of an abscess in his right foot. Cause of the infection: in an accident possible only in the 20th century, Ray strolled beside a Las Vegas swimming pool last July and speared himself, olivelike, on a dropped Martini toothpick...
...supreme portrayer of morose juvenility. The motorized wolves burst into the small town of Wrightsville, stack their machines along the curb, and pile into the local saloon to look for some action. They get it, and so does Wrightsville. The audience sits frozen with a growing horror as the abscess of violence swells and swells until the watcher almost cries out for it to burst and be done with. It bursts all right. Before the day and night are over, the young toughs have commandeered the tavern, wrecked a beauty parlor, broken into the jail, kidnaped and terrorized a young...
...every ten in the U.S. population carries a few amoebae in his bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter. Meanwhile, a second Singer...