Word: appendixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invisible Appendix...
Your medical editor passed quite a "boner" in your marvelous tale from Brazil (TIME, Feb. 5) in which it is stated that "X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed [during a seance in a dark room]." Every medical man knows that the barium shadow of the appendix when in situ [in the body] is rarely seen. . . . The absence of such a shadow cannot possibly prove that the appendix is missing...
...correct answer was given to the question throughout the day. . . . When relating this experience to a member of the staff.* The barium shadow of the appendix can be seen often, not "rarely." But Dr. Singley's main point still holds: as proof of the absence of the appendix the X-ray test is unreliable. of Columbia University Library, she sadly bemoaned the ignorance of the average person of facts pertaining to our country. I broke in with, "Can you tell me the location of the State of Kansas?" She could not! . . . The Little Red Schoolhouse had its points...
...phonograph droned in the grisly darkness for an hour and 50 minutes. At last the lights went up. In a jar of alcohol weltered a fine appendix. On the patient's belly "was a neatly closed incision. Ten days later, X rays proved that Spiritualist Bernardi's appendix had actually been removed...
There were outbursts from pulpit and press. Monsenhor João Azevedo, priest of the straying sheep of Pindamonhangaba, denounced the spiritualists as cheats and frauds, offering to prove that one of the witness doctors, under cover of music and darkness, had removed the appendix himself. But the spiritualists prepared to welcome hordes of new converts. Their Pindamonhangaba center was deluged with requests for the painless professional services of ghostly Dr. Amaral...