Cutler himself worked hard at anatomy to find something fresh to operate on; and at last he got hold of something he calls the nuciform sac, which he's made quite the fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
Far earlier than that, George Bernard Shaw in The Doctors 'Dilemma (1906) had entertained knowledgeable audiences by ridiculing the appendectomists who were removing untold numbers of the so-called "nuciform sac" with the justification that the surgery cured or prevented chronic diseases of various sorts, including psychiatric ones, all in accordance with the theory of focal sepsis. From Wordnik.com. ['Killing Cures': An Exchange] Reference
But I cant sell my nuciform sac when youve cut it out. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
The nuciform sac is utter nonsense: theres no such organ. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
I tell you this: in an intelligently governed country people wouldnt be allowed to go about with nuciform sacs, making themselves centres of infection. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
You removed her nuciform sac. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
I believe you have no nuciform sac. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
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