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...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
...prodigious to help them in their jobs of supervising menus in hospitals, hotels, restaurants, schools and relief kitchens, Western Reserve's able Professor Thomas Wingate Todd declared: "There are three criteria of a stomach that is up to its job: 1) a mind free from fog; 2) an abdomen free from discomfort; 3) a sleep free from dreams...
Besides lowering blood pressure rhizotomy or splanchnic resection "leads to disappearance of perspiration on the legs and lower abdomen, increases the warmth of these parts of the body, and turns them slightly more pink than usual...
Sugars & Fats- Diabetes is due to improper functioning of the pancreas, a small spongy gland in the abdomen which pours certain digestive juices into the intestines. In addition, the pancreas secretes insulin, a hormone which goes directly into the blood and helps turn carbohydrates into energy. To compensate for lack of insulin production in diabetics, doctors for the past dozen years have given such patients hypodermic doses of drugstore insulin. In addition some doctors order them to take large amounts of fat with their meals, with the idea of resting an inefficient pancreas. Other doctors order large amounts of sugars...
...There was none of the empty or 'gone' feeling in the abdomen so common in elevators and in airplanes. The eyes, although unprotected from the high wind blast, were not irritated. . . . Breathing was even, regular and undisturbed...