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...Buffalo, describe a condition called "subcostalgia," which he asserted is fairly common. It occurs usually on the right side in right-handed people, as a result of stooping over. The patient may complain of pain before and after an abdominal operation which has been done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease...
...firm stand in the post-holiday battle that is sure to come. Dr. Leighton Parks, veteran insurgent rector of St. Bartholomew's continued as a prime center of interest. He issued in printed form his controversial sermon of the week previous (TIME, Dec. 24) and in an appendix he charged the Bishops with being "unscholarly men, whose administrative duties gave them little time for study." Dr. Parks said he had shunned the limelight of publicity all his life. "Physically and spiritually it hurts my eyes." He received promptly the confidence of his vestry and the majority of his congregation...
...inconsequential, where it could have been a brief survey of the "Little Theatre" movement in America, with special mention of the different groups which gave first production to a number of the plays included in the collection. The other element of which one notices particularly the absence, is an appendix with short biographies of the various authors represented by the twenty plays...
Second as " The big laugh and how the Woolly Horse fooled 'em," in his Autobiography. Each year Barnum added an appendix to the story of his life, that the public might keep itself up-to-date with his puns and practical jokes...
...appendix to the report illustrates by means of graphs the increasingly national character of the University...