Word: abscesses
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...performed for cataract of the eye. As early as about 2000 B.C., the Code of Hammurabi ordained: "If a physician . . . open a tumor of the eye with a bronze lancet and save [the patient's] sight, he shall have ten shekels of silver ... If a physician open an abscess of the eye with a bronze lancet and the patient lose his eye, the physician shall have his fingers cut off." In his monumental monograph, Surgery of Cataract (Lippincott; $30), New York Ophthalmologist Daniel B. Kirby traces the history of operations for cataract (a clouding...
...Markup. So many ailing people in & around Chicago flocked to buy that in 1944 the Vrilium Products Co. was formed to manufacture and sell more Magic Spikes. Former Mayor Ed Kelly wore one to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, and credited the healing of a bone abscess to its power. Other wearers included Municipal Court Bailiff Al Horan and Illinois State Senator William J. Connors. Exact sales figures on the Magic Spike are unknown. Osteopath Raymond Kistler of Wyandotte, Mich, admitted that he bought 150 at around $150 apiece, resold them...
...were obvious. Unlike routine chest X rays, the serum test will disclose tuberculosis in other parts of the body besides the lungs. An X ray shows lung spots, but the serum test helps to determine whether the spots are healed tuberculosis scars or other lung diseases such as cancer, abscess, pneumonia or silicosis...