Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surgery he has performed: a 2½-hour diaphragmatic hernia operation on a 76-year-old patient, a 1½-hour rectal cancer removal on an 82-year-old woman. He has also nailed a hip fracture for a 97-year-old accident victim, done intestinal resections, gall bladder, bowel cancer and ovarian cyst operations...
After the bowel recovers from laxative irritation, it can get along with very little help: the methylcellulose can be cut down from 16 tablets...
...study of mental illness did not make much progress in the 19th Century. Victorian doctors, concentrating on the microscope and on the autopsy table, were determined to find a physical reason for every illness. Fascinated by blood, bone and bowel, they decided that neuroses were caused by upset "nerves" or "brain." The treatment of mental illness lagged-with a few exceptions-until fairly recent times...
...road to intestinal purgatory is paved with purgatives. . . . The bowel becomes dazed and dull...
Brunschwig's conclusion: a man could probably survive with part of one adrenal gland, part of the liver, about 30% of the small bowel, one kidney, a few other abdominal odds & ends...