Word: appendix
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Already out is Associate Professor Albert J. Guerard's "Andre Gide." In the appendix, Guerard publishes two letters from Gide who read a preliminary version of the book. During the fall a biography of Lloyd George will be printed, written by Thomas Jones, who was deputy secretary of the British Cabinet during his premiership...
...with his country's Nationalists screaming that anything the West could do they could do better (including running Iran's oilfields), His Majesty decided it would be unwise politically, if wise medically, to seek relief abroad. He stayed at home and suffered. But recently the appendix got too troublesome...
...hospital has marked many firsts in medicine and surgery. In 1816, Surgeon Philip Syng Physick was the first American to use animal tissue to sew up wounds. In 1887, Dr. Thomas G. Morton performed the first successful operation for the removal of a diseased appendix. Some other surgeons are remembered for odd reasons: as late as the 1870s, Dr. David Hayes Agnew insisted on stropping his scalpel on his boot sole, and Dr. George C. Harlan, for handiness, held instruments between his teeth...
Along with simple explanations, Truman prescribes simple drawings. A swollen, inflamed appendix is easy to sketch on a prescription pad, and so is the operation of cutting it off. "Perhaps," says Truman (no Vesalius), "the less artistic you are the better you can illustrate for the patient...
Forest Hansen, sophomore guard on the basketball team, was operated on late Tuesday night for an inflamed appendix. Hansen is not expected to be in playing shape until the last few games of the season...