Word: appendix
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Menuhin has kept this respect for the Masters. He studies now only from original texts (in German the Ur-texts), works out by himself the composer's own bowings & markings. When a Swiss doctor was about to remove his appendix, he went under ether asking for the Ur-text of Bach. "Bach alone, unedited," he said, "is so perfect, so satisfying...
...chief of the Kane Summit Hospital and, like Dr. Kane, good enough to be a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, might have done the work. But old Dr. Kane likes to do things to himself. Eleven years ago he anesthetized himself and cut out his own appendix. Three years ago he began signing his operations by tattooing in India ink the Morse telegraph code (? -? ) which signifies...
...hunter, in the American Hospital, Cairo, following amputation of a leg; Morris Gest, theatrical producer, in Jamesburg, N. J., of a nervous collapse partially induced by grief over the death of his father-in-law, David Belasco; Cinemactor Tom Mix in Hollywood, of peritonitis following operation upon a ruptured appendix; Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey, in Istanbul, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash ; Yale Footballer Albie Booth, in New Haven, of pleurisy; William Reynolds, 18, son of Richard Samuel Reynolds, onetime tobacco tycoon, in Great Neck, L. I., of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; ("Bad") Bishop William Montgomery...
...right ureter (through which the right kidney drains into the bladder). Diseases of women's sexual apparatus may act like appendicitis. Especially confusing in this respect is menstrual colic, from which many a flabby and nervous woman suffers. And infections of the intestines may spread to the appendix...
...appendix pain may pass away. But it is almost sure to return some day. There is no medicine to cure an infected appendix. It must be cut out. the sooner the better, agree most physicians and surgeons. Deaths are almost always due to delayed operations...