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...military hospital, Tojo explained why he had tried to kill himself with a pistol instead of by traditional harakiri: he had had no aide (kaishaku) to stand by and strike off his head with a two-handed sword after he had slit his abdomen with a ceremonial dagger. In some recent Japanese pistol suicides a kaishaku with a pistol stood by to blow out the suicide's brains. Said Tojo: "I did not want to mess up my head...
...aphid, feeding on leaf juices, secretes a sweet liquid called "honey-dew" to which ants are very partial. Some varie ties of ants keep herds of aphids, like cows, and milk them by stroking the abdomen gently with their antennae; a well-fed aphid may yield 48 drops of "milk...
...reconstructing external organs, Dr. Frumkin ingeniously adapts well-tried plastic surgery techniques - a tube of flesh transferred from the abdomen, a strip of cartilage from a rib. But until recently he shook his head when both testicles were destroyed. Without their hormones, he knew, his patient must inevitably be come effeminate in appearance and action - a eunuch...
...meaning that color had returned. He added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...
...Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...