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Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
Along this line I think it would be wise in the article labeled "New Deal Cold Cure" regarding Federal Cold Treatment No. I, to warn people who have not had their appendix removed to be very cautious about taking the castor oil or citrate of magnesia purge. I presume that you are assuming that this would be under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but by far the greater percentage of people who have colds do not take medicine under the direction of a doctor or nurse, but rather on their own initiative. . . . The coincident attack of appendicitis with...
...Appendicitis is then dangerous per se. Thus although only one-third of the cases of appendicitis occur at the extremes of life, two-thirds of the deaths from the disease occur before 10 and after 40. Why this is so Surgeon Maes explained last week. The character of the appendix changes as people grow older. In the young the organ contains an abundance of lymphoid tissue, which renders it a particularly good harborer for germs. In the old the appendix largely loses its lymphoid character. Its risks then grow from diseases of its blood vessels. "In the young patient, therefore...
...Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has mastered Italian politics so thoroughly that his main interest now lies in turning the state into a business run efficiently by businessmen, pushed preparations last week to cut out what he has come to think of as Italy's political appendix, the Chamber of Deputies...
...medical profession," last week tried to answer the doctor's perpetual question: How much shall I charge? In different communities, surgeons charge from $100 to $5,000 to remove a tumor from the bladder, $50 to $2,000 to repair a fractured skull. Removal of an appendix costs $150 to $250 in some Western communities, from $250 to $1,000 in Eastern cities. Office call charges average $2. But some doctors take as little as 50?. some as high as $15. Doctors, to avoid competition, look to their county medical societies to set fee schedules. But Publisher Lansing Chapman...