Word: hernias
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...Miami, getting hospital treatment for bursitis (inflammation) in the shoulder. And Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 64, who had long wanted it, was finally allowed to be "relieved of active participation in the Navy."** The dog-jawed Pacific hero, recovering in a Manhattan hospital after a hernia operation, was not retired, because fleet admirals are just not retired; officially he remained on call, and would go on drawing full...
...sold spices, patent medicine, lice powder, chocolate, etc. Said he, looking deep into Author MacDonald's eyes: "I heard you got a new baby; organs all back in place O.K.?' . . . After I had put his mind to rest about my organs he told me about his hernia and I'm sure would have showed it to me if I had been a customer of a little longer standing...
Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...
...Studies . . . involving thousands of low-income farm people in 17 states showed between three and four significant defects per person. Fourteen percent . . . had varicose veins. One farm operator out of every twelve had a hernia. Nineteen percent had hemorrhoids...
When the doctors operated for what they felt certain was complicated umbilical hernia, they were amazed to find that the patient's self-diagnosis of "knifelike" pains had been literally accurate: there was actually a nine-inch table knife in his sigmoid. the curve of the intestine leading to the rectum...