Word: hernias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More controversial even than his method is the part Dr. Niehans played in Pius XII's 1954 illness. His admirers say that his treatment saved the Pope. Detractors argue that he wrongly diagnosed the illness (diaphragmatic hernia) as cancer, and was hustled out of the papal presence. What is certain is that as a reward for whatever he did, Dr. Niehans displays an autographed photograph on which the Pope wrote, in German, high praise of the cellular specialist. And in 1955 the Pope named him to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences...
About three months ago, after a hernia operation revealed the serious progression of his cancer, Dulles underwent 18 jolting sessions of radiation therapy and one injection of radioactive gold, then set off hopefully for a convalescence under the sun and beside the sea in Florida. But the hope was short-lived. Two weeks later, John Foster Dulles flew back to Washington and checked into Walter Reed hospital for the last time...
...prowling around a cattle auction in Walterboro, S.C. when he got word that Dulles wanted to talk to him on the telephone. He took the call on an old-fashioned wall phone, got the word from Dulles that he was heading off for Walter Reed Hospital for his hernia operation. "Don't rush back," said Dulles. "If you do, they'll think I'm worse than I am-and if I am that bad, you'll need the rest to handle the work...
...Gary Middlecoff, burly dentist playing in his first tournament since undergoing a hernia operation last fall, handily won the St. Petersburg (Fla.) open with a 72-hole total of 275, three strokes better than Runner-Up Pete Cooper...
Laura was only 2½, but so well adjusted for her age-she rarely cried and never had tantrums-that her doctors and parents had no qualms when she was admitted to London's Tavistock Clinic to have an umbilical hernia repaired. Her mother could visit Laura every day, and she would be home in a week. She seemed to understand all this when mummy and daddy explained it. She was even allowed to take her favorite soft toy, unsanitary though it was. Surgery went well, and to doctors and nurses Laura seemed fine. Even her anxious mother thought...