Word: hernia
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...were still alive ; seven had died in the past year. An alarmed member jumped to his feet and moved the appointment of a Committee on Longevity. This group discovered, among other things, that a member who' was a gallstone specialist had a gallstone without knowing it, that a hernia specialist had a hernia. The mortality rate was reduced (only one died last year) and of the 94 present survivors, ranging in age up to 80, all but ten have refused to retire...
...Weak to Live. "Scurvy was conspicuous by its absence. . . . The abdominal distention was often associated with a small umbilical hernia . . . watery diarrhea and a tendency to pass food unaltered. It was difficult to persuade many of these cases to eat. . . . Many complained of cough and produced a white frothy sputum which I took to be due to edema of the lungs. . . . The heart was sometimes moderately enlarged and the heart sounds diminished in volume. . . . A more or less severe secondary anemia was invariably present. . . . Amenorrhea and sterility were extremely common...
...jawed female who thinks she's going all-out for victory by slapping some unoffending stranger with the sneer: "Why aren't you in uniform?" when he's liable to be a discharged vet or someone like me, who volunteered and was rejected three times for hernia. Both remarks presuppose that men are free agents and aren't in combat only because they are craven, and that's more nonsense than your Miss Shepard ought to be allowed...
...whole sac, leaving a wound so large that it must be kept partly open to heal gradually. A serviceman needs 60 to 90 days healing time before he can go back on duty. In 1940 the Navy found that the cysts were responsible for more hospitalization than hernia or syphilis. In last week's Southern Medical Journal, Dr. Louis Arthur Buie of the Mayo Clinic said that after draft officials got over being choosy and started sending along pilonidal cyst cases, "overconscientious" Army & Navy surgeons began operating on all cysts, even uninfected "dimples." Purpose: to remove the possibility...
...doctors were waiting. The medical team peered and prodded each man as he filed past. These were hard-bellied soldiers, tanned and toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...