Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bladder, Whitmore had to install extensive new "plumbing." Taking the dangling ends of the ureters-the two tubes that normally carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder-he connected them to a piece of "piping" or conduit made by snipping out a small piece of bowel. While preparing the conduit, Whitmore and his colleagues had to work with exceptional care, keeping intact the blood vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical team had created just to the right...
...Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...
...have long been linked with cancer, the researchers noted an intriguing new finding: for people who both drink and smoke, the risk of cancer appears to rise proportionately higher than for those who do only one of these things. The report also implicates diet; for example, the incidence of bowel cancer seems to increase with the amount of meat and fatty foods consumed. Cancer may also be linked with dietary deficiencies; one researcher pointed out that an absence of vitamin A may contribute to the development of several kinds of cancer, including cancer of the salivary glands. Finally, the specialists...
...resonant with the best that the human spirit can bring to life and death. But books, like people, provoke shabby reactions when they run in packs. To this confusion of responses must be added a bit of professional cynicism: that leukemia, like tuberculosis and unlike, say, cancer of the bowel, is a good literary disease. It offers a succession of intensifying crises, separated by weeks or months of remission during which the sufferer appears to be totally healthy and timid hopes of a permanent cure are raised. Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund...
...ways in which low-weight, sluggish bowel movements might contribute to so many diverse diseases are complex and indirect, the Burkitt group concedes. Diverticulosis-in which the large bowel is deeply pitted and fecal material is trapped in the crevices-appears to be directly related to a diet rich in such highly refined carbohydrates as white flour and sugar. Tumors, both benign and malignant, are related to biochemical and bacterial changes caused by long retention of feces. As for heart disease: "Evidence is accumulating that shows that the removal of fiber from the diet raises serum cholesterol levels, a process...