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Williams, who is a member of the Advisory Group to the Democratic National Committee, said that the new group was "a very important adjunct to the Democratic Party," and would "provide a sound forum for leadership in the Party...
There are, it is true, several distinct advantages to TV, some of which were enumerated above. Perhaps the chief of these lies in television's ability to magnify lecture demonstrations which would otherwise be difficult or impossible to see. In this capacity, television has become an important adjunct to dental education. A demonstration involving the drilling of a tooth, for example, could ordinarily be observed by only a few students. But television allows an almost unlimited number to view the operation, and view it better than the students who originally had to crowd around the chair. Television, in effect, makes...
Corn Oil & Dextrose. Dole & Co. drew careful, if not highly significant, conclusions: "Limitation of protein appears to be a useful adjunct to the treatment of obesity, but, as with any other diet, regular medical supervision is essential." Their findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and caused only the faintest ripple among reducing authorities. But a free-lance writer and professional gourmet named Roy de Groot, serving as a night telephone operator at the institute, had been one of the out-clinic patients. He wrote a hopped-up account (published in Look magazine) of the diet...
What is pain? Everybody knows because everybody has suffered it, but nobody can tell anybody else. Dictionaries are hopeless.* The late Sir Charles Sherrington, who collected no fewer than 22 honorary doctorates for his brilliant researches in physiology, called pain "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." That may be fine for another physiologist, but it is no help to a man with a nail through his foot. Although pain is what drives most patients to a doctor, it is the symptom to which, all too often, doctors pay least attention. One good reason: it is the subject about...
...Ouch!" or its equivalent at the same amount of heat, i.e., when the skin temperature hit 113° F. Yet an Eskimo has been known to hack off his own gangrenous foot to save his leg. The conclusion: the differences between races and cultures must lie in the "psychical adjunct" part of Sherrington's definition-in the reaction to pain, not in the pain as such...