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...ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
...most devastating sections in the Beveridge Report was Appendix D, "The Problem of Industrial Assurance," wherein Sir William exposed the costliness of industrial life insurance. In 1939 there were 103,000,000 industrial policies in force, or nearly three per head of the population. Premiums received were over ?70,000,000 ($280,000,000), of which expenses and management took up ?24,000,000 while shareholders' dividends amounted to ?1,750,000 ($7,000,000). The handling of these vast businesses is done by 65,000 agents, many of them "penny-a-week men" touting and receiving small payments...
...which is not a technique at all, but an amazing speed in operating attained through practice, great anatomical knowledge and never-ending study. There is no Erdmann operation-the doctor never concentrated exclusively on any one area. He would as soon cut off a leg as go after an appendix, is at home in the skull and the thorax. He teaches surgery, but has never been able to teach the Erdmann technique...
...Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed his appendix, stitched him up again. "It took us two and a half hours," wrote Hoskins, "and the patient is now convalescing in great shape...
...week's end, 75 Japanese carrier-based planes attacked the harbor, airport and railway of Colombo, on the island of Ceylon, India's very appendix. Ceylon was alert, and the defenders rose up and knocked down 32 of the enemy, more than one in three. This score suggested that the British may be better stocked with aircraft in India than in Burma, but it also acutely reminded the Allies that every mile of the Japanese advance in Burma was also an advance on India. As a further reminder the Japanese next day bombed two towns on India...