Word: hernia
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Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made with startling frequency-in 10% to 12% of all patients who have X rays of the upper digestive tract. But is the condition more common than formerly? Probably not, said Harvard's Dr. Herbert D. Adams at a regional meeting of the American College of Surgeons in Boston. The explanation, he suggested, is that the X rays are now being read with greater...
Kanuth (6'5", 200 lbs.), currently slowed down by his hernia operation of three weeks ago, has started for the Crimson since his sophomore year. Last season he ranked second on the team in scoring (with a 10.9 average) and in rebounding and was named its Most Valuable Player. Harrison sometimes uses him at the post position instead of wing...
...scrimmage against a group of graduate students--"The Inceptors"--yesterday, Harrison got the action he desired about midway through the first half. Trailing 22-10, Harvard, sparked by captain Bob Kanuth, still recovering from a hernia operation, and sophomore Jay Noble, connected on break after break, rolling up 40 points in less than 10 minutes to take a 52-40 halftime lead...
...nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered Appaloosa stallion, and an old covered wagon (donated by Barry Goldwater) brought in $246,000 to COMPAS (Combined Metropolitan Phoenix Arts...
...told of 611 consecutive patients he sent home even more speedily from the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., and Grace Hospital in Detroit. Of 67 appendicitis patients, only seven stayed in the hospital even as long as the average Norwalk patient. All 87 of his young single-hernia patients were sent home within two days of their operations. Of 72 gall-bladder convalescents, 59 were out in five days...