Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Volume 3

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Page 241 - ... to the right or to the left, as the case may be. The pain is clear cut, and often of short duration, with an interval of perhaps complete relief.
Page 15 - The complicated structure of the stroma, containing as it does elements such as embryonic connective tissue, cartilage, bone, fat, and lymphoid tissue, and very rarely striated muscle, is explained most easily by the assumption of an embryonic misplacement of mesoblast.
Page 134 - Generally speaking, malignant disease in any part of the large intestine proximal to the middle of the transverse colon is treated best by removal of all the large intestine up to and including the growth, doing lateral ileocolostomy. Beyond this point resection of the colon in one or two stages is preferred.
Page 81 - ... admirable mixing receptacle, and syphonage plays almost as important a part as muscular action in emptying it. In many animals the entrance to the pyloric end of the stomach is controlled by a true sphincter which does not exist in man, although physiologic contraction graphically marks its situation. The terminal threefourths of an inch of the pyloric end of the stomach, the so-called "pyloric canal of Jonnesco," may be considered a part of the sphincter apparatus of the pylorus, serving as...
Page 131 - ... in other parts of the body. The pessimism of the medical profession regarding malignant disease of the gastro-intestinal tract is not justified by the facts. It is the failure to make...
Page 97 - These data would indicate that the patient with a cancer of the stomach which is sufficiently localized to be removed radically has better than a 90 per cent. chance to recover from the operation, and better than a 36 per cent. chance of a three-year cure, and at least a 25 per cent. chance of a five-year cure.
Page 162 - ... duodenally obstructed dogs prolonged life in a series of 15 animals by about thirty-six hours over a similar series to which they were not given. 2. The average pulserate of the treated dog was 33 beats lower than that of the untreated. 3. The belief that we were dealing with a cytologic product was strengthened by the trend of the charts. These showed that beneficial action occurred early, just as in the case of any successful treatment by antibodies. 4. The chemical determinations in one animal...
Page 456 - Inasmuch as the importance of the duct and the ductless glands is now known to us, we see why there should be, proportionately, so few anomalies among them in comparison with those in less important structures of the body. It is becoming more and more apparent that of the various ductless glands the thyroid is one of the most important in its control of the body metabolism, as well as in the maintenance and stimulation of function in many of the associated glands. While various diseases or changes...
Page 135 - On a number of occasions we have first resected a loop of the small intestine; twice we have removed two separate loops, and in one instance three loops, removing the primary growth in the colon .with the portions of the small intestine attached. In four cases we removed a portion of the bladder, and in three cases the uterus was coincidentally removed.
Page 5 - These are enlarged when there is pus producing process in any part of the territory which they drain, especially in cases of Tonsillar infection. Fourth. "The sub-maxillary group receive the lymphatics of the nose, the cheek, upper lip, the external part of the lower lip, almost the whole of the gums and the anterior third of the lateral border of the tongue. Their efferent vessels terminate in the glands of the deep cervical chain.

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