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Rowse here examines carefully the performances of 31 daily newspapers, plus one more in the appendix. He chose the 32 papers wisely, mainly on the basis of circulation, reputation and location; and he also tried to include a sampling of political views and ownership groups...
...Sadao Ohmura [who removed his own appendix-June 3] certainly did not prove that Japanese are more dexterous than Westerners...
While in private practice in North Carolina several years ago, my father, Captain J. S. Brown Jr., U.S.N., also removed his own appendix. That, however, was only the preliminary. While aboard the U.S.S. Melville in England during the war, he performed an emergency double herniotomy-on himself, of course...
...vertical incision, helped Takahashi suture the blood vessels. Then, said Ohmura, he sliced into the abdominal muscle, proceeding "exactly as with several hundred appendectomies I have performed." The pain caused by his own finger probing into the wound made him feel faint, but Ohmura fished out the diseased appendix anyway, then "with sweat rolling down my face I gasped to Takahashi, 'Sensei [teacher], let's take a break...
Five minutes later, after another self-administered shot of procaine, Ohmura snipped off the appendix, sutured the wound 50 minutes after he had made it. Home again and healthy a few days later, Ohmura had not proved that Japanese are more dexterous than Westerners (an American surgeon excised his own appendix in 1932 and a Mexican surgeon, from whom Ohmura got the idea, repeated the performance in 1946), but he had clearly demonstrated that they can be at least as eccentric. "I learned one thing," he reflected ruefully. "It really hurt...