Word: hernia
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...Presiding Bishop's decision was not all that much of a surprise. Chosen to succeed the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill in 1958, Bishop Lichtenberger, 64, was forced to curtail his speaking activities last spring because of Parkinson's disease. He underwent a hernia operation in September, later fell ill with phlebitis; his letter to the bishops admitted that he had made "little progress" in recovering the control over speech he lost as a result of Parkinson's disease...
...apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell in his bathroom, while trying to fix a loose...
...Eliot, 76, suffering from a bronchial attack brought on by London's recent heavy smog; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, with a touch of the flu, in Palm Desert, Calif., where she and Ike are spending the winter; Harry Truman, 78, "doing nicely" after an operation for hernia, in Kansas City's Research Hospital...
...Croydon airport. At 48, he surrendered his appendix to a surgeon's knife and, nine years later in the U.S., lost a decision to a Manhattan taxicab, which knocked him down and broke some Churchillian bones. Since his 70th birthday, the ailments have come thick and fast: a hernia operation in 1947, a stroke in 1953 and, two years ago, a broken bone in his back from a fall in his London home. On that occasion, Churchill celebrated his 86th birthday with cigars and-in place of brandy-a bottle of champagne...
...Kolouch's prize case was a businessman of 46 who had had a mortal fear of surgery since childhood, capped by an unsuccessful operation for hernia repair at the age of 41. After this earlier operation he had needed seven doses of pain relievers and was hospitalized for five days. Moreover, the operation failed, and he suffered agony for five years because he could not face repeated surgery. Dr. Kolouch talked him into it and used hypnosis. With his unconscious anxiety and conscious fears at rest, the patient needed only one dose of an opiate...