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...State and Federal Governments. Most of the Governors forthwith boarded a special train to Washington, put their proposition to President Roosevelt at a White House luncheon (see p. 9). Maryland's unhappy Nice was rushed home in a New Jersey State Police ambulance for an emergency operation (rectal abscess...
...brain gone. In Harvard's anatomical museum is the skull of a man who lived for many years after an explosion drove a crowbar clear through his head. In Louisville lives a woman who had the front lobes of her brain removed on account of an abscess of the brain. In fact, Dr. Kosterlitz was sanguine about his patient. Said he: "If she lives, the shock of the injury may cure her. Such things have happened in epileptic cases." But removal of the spike permitted a hemorrhage in Dema Dunlap's brain, from which four days later...
...bald Marc Rucart, onetime journalist, now Minister of Justice in the Blum Cabinet, had an important announcement for humanitarians throughout the world last week. After months of private discussion the new Left Wing French Cabinet was about to correct a longstanding evil. The penal colony in French Guiana, that "abscess on the body colonial," will progressively be abolished. Within a few months, a mixed commission from the Ministries of Colonies and Justice will be sent to Guiana to recommend the details. Until the present Paris scheme matures, no more convicts will be sent out to rot in the tropics...
...foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson's staff could attempt removal...
Said Seattle's Anesthetist Louis Herbert Maxson last week upon having a piece of dead bone removed from his foot without the use of anesthetic: "I'll be a fine guinea pig." Dr. Maxson had just discovered that he suffered from syringomyelia, incurable spinal abscess which renders limbs insensate and may require continuous amputations. Bleakly continued Dr. Maxson: "Well, it's a slow disease. It may take 10, 20, 40 years to kill me. And I'm 52. So I'm not bothering my head about it much. Anesthetists work sitting down...