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...case history, as reported by Psychiatrist Denys Kelsey and Surgeon John N. Barron in the British Medical Journal: a man of 24 had lost part of his right foot in an accident; to help repair the damage, skin was to be grafted in two stages-first from his abdomen to his left forearm, then to the foot. The surgeons feared that the usual plaster casts might create sores and painful stiffness in the joints and make them useless for weeks...
...neck (TIME, Feb. 10) came an encouraging bulletin on Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella. Still paralyzed from the waist down, Roy has improved in "muscle strength," and "he is now able to move his wrists and straighten out his arms. The sense of feeling ... is now down to the upper abdomen...
...been nauseated and suffering from diarrhea. At the clinic in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened her abdomen. Her womb was normal, but he detected bile stains and inflammation around her gall bladder. He opened the bladder, took out a gallstone, closed the bladder, flushed it with an antibiotic solution. The patient made a good recovery and went home within a week...
Baffling Symptoms. The medics found that the airmen, far from goldbricking, had a baffling variety of symptoms. All had high temperatures-half of them went over 100°. Nearly all had tender, enlarged lymph nodes, tenderness in the abdomen, and pharyngitis. A few were first treated as outpatients, but soon had to be admitted to the hospital. There, with no treatment but bed rest and a highprotein, high-carbohydrate diet, they unaccountably got worse. Their livers, which had been enlarged in most cases on admission, became bigger, and so tender that the airmen resisted the medics' efforts to examine...
Tasco told police his assailant asked him "Are you from Cambridge?" and that when he replied affirmatively the assailant plunged a knife into his abdomen...