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...Iowa City, Iowa, recently came a woman suffering from a disease so extraordinary that it appalled the physicians, surgeons, who attended her. She, a certain Mrs. Mary McCormick from Cedar Rapids, had for six years suffered from a form of neuritis. She had journeyed from specialist to specialist without avail. When she entered the hospital, she regarded her death as a matter of weeks. Her originally large body (223 Ibs.) ossified, shrunk to almost nothing (40 Ibs.), the withered flesh hardened, taking on a stony texture; her jaws set, it became impossible for her to eat. Last week she died...
...which students brought sundry turkeys, geese and other fowls from the neighbors' hen houses to be cooked. More than once the Overseers "sollemnly cautioned" the convivial host "of entertaining any of the students in his house, frequenting the Colledges, or drawing them otherwise into his company." All to no avail. The merry Samuel remained the center of extracurriculum activities until his death...
...Cabinet or Speaker of the House of Representatives." Alexander Hamilton, Carl Schurz and many other names illustrious in American history were cited by opponents of the resolution as proof that foreign birth does not disqualify a man for great service to the United States; but all to no avail...
...pointed out that the American Medical Association has complete information on all licensed physicians and more than 100,000 cross-indexed cards containing information concerning quacks, cultists and nostrums of various kinds - information kept not for physicians but for the benefit of the public. He suggested that newspapers avail themselves of this information to avoid being duped by egregious quacks...
...title awarded by a closer decision. Of the 15 rounds, six were indubitably Goldstein's, six as indubitably Martin's. In the dubious three, Goldstein was heady, agile, defensive; Martin eager, fresh, intrepid. Hard had Champion Goldstein pecked in the third and fourth, to no avail. His rights impaired Martin's jaw, failed to touch his spirit. Discouraged, Goldstein played safe, boxed, lost the decision. Yet not a few smoky-throated ones went home muttering that six of one and half a dozen of the other was a draw...