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...Little Flower, cried "That burns, that scorches!" when holy water was sprinkled. A prayer to Mary the Immaculate Conception "caused a bloating of the woman's body." The woman appeared "emaciated at times, her face fiery red at others, her lips swollen to the size of hands, her abdomen so hard at one time that it bent the iron bedstead to the floor. Wise old Father Theophilus, who said he knew the energumen would recover, had to dissuade the others from having last rites given...
...Surgeon Boyd admitted that only a few weeks ago he had inserted in his private record of the case the words "organs infantile." Daughter Hewitt's attorney wanted to know why, if only an appendectomy was anticipated, Surgeon Boyd had made his incision in the centre of her abdomen instead of on the right side...
...familiar joke about the woman who went through so many operations that she asked for a zipper closure last week seemed about to become a reality. A Chicago man was having his abdomen kept open for weeks to permit surgeons gradually to cauterize a cancer in his stomach. Surgeons sewed the edges of the slit stomach to the edges of the slit abdomen. Then they fastened a section of zipper along each edge of the compound slit by means of adhesive tape. Now to close the abdominal hole until time for the next cauterization, the operator simply pulls the zipper...
...every assistance. Toward the end of the morning, as a patient was being wheeled away, Superintendent Jolly turned to Photographer Miller, remarked: "Now here is something special you might want to see. The next one is a Caesarean section."* Photographer Miller clicked eagerly while the patient was anesthetized, her abdomen opened, her baby drawn out feet first; followed through while the baby, a healthy 7 lb. boy, was removed, washed, footprinted for identification. When Editor Pooley shuffled through the results of the morning's work, he immediately pounced on the Caesarean pictures as most newsworthy. Well he knew that...
With eight Egyptians killed by Russell Pasha's forces fortnight ago, a scrimmage last week caused the police to shoot an Egyptian boy in the abdomen and gravely wound four others. Russell Pasha then changed his tactics. Police began firing charges of small buckshot directly into massed Cairo demonstrators. Correspondents, surprised to see how spunkily Egyptian girl students stood up to this kind of treatment, decided to call on 70-year-old Mme Said Zaghlul...