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...Travel. In Burbank, Calif., police confiscated Tom Harper's .22-cal. frontier pistol after he shot himself in the leg while practicing fast draws, next day during another practice session pinked his wife on the abdomen...
...sneak a quick swig, soon collapsed, unconscious. The bucket held scalding, near-boiling chowder, and the burn closed young Tom's gullet with scar tissue. Not a particle of food or a drop of liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting it into a funnel from which it passed through a rubber tube inserted in the hole in his stomach...
Both surgeons were a bit late, Huggins charges, and neither took the time to identify the draped figure on his operating table as his own patient. What especially outrages Huggins is that although he insists it was obvious that he had no hernia, Surgeon Graves cut into his abdomen to correct one, and although he had no testicular disease, his left testicle was removed...
...Beaurevoir (variously estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn. Dr. Butterfield suggests that this "would not be surprising if there were many calcified lymph glands in the abdomen, the usual result of bovine tuberculosis...
...night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest and abdomen ripped...