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...book at human passions, at all the unfortunate sick who have been kept waiting in the reception room, who fell athwart the doctor's inhumane side -or thought they did-who are all too ready to believe that the surgeon's main purpose in removing an appendix is to collect a $1,500 fee. That side of medicine unfortunately exists. It is the only side revealed in this book...
Cloete writes with a wagonload of wooden cliches, a compelling wealth of historical detail, and a too, too tumescent indignation. He is a leading member of Britain's Anti-Slavery Society, and he provides an appendix showing that white-slave traffic is still surprisingly busy today. All the same, Cloete's outrage would be a little more convincing if his rapes, orgies, flagellations and assorted other perversions were described with a little less prurience...
...middle school is also recommended in one of the Central I middle school districts although Westinghouse High School is located within the district. Westinghouse is not the oldest or most deteriorated high school in Pittsburgh, but it is 44 years old and has many physical defects, as outlined in Appendix C. Moreover, Westinghouse has become identified as a "Negro school," and it is located within a densely Negro residential area. The new middle school will have an enrollment which is approximately half-white and half-Negro. Achieving a successful education program at a racially integrated school in this district will...
...entire text of the report on the Medical School's curriculum is printed below. Several sentences referring to a schematic diagram (not reproduced here) have been deleted. Also, an appendix to the report has not been reprinted...
...note that nonlawyer Dacey, uncertified, self-designated paragon, has put together a home-remedy lawbook. I hope this will not inspire some operating-room orderly to put together a hodgepodge of medical mishmash on how to avoid hospital and surgery fees by home removal of appendix, tonsils and other anatomical appendages...