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...Manhattan, Writer Ben Hecht, Palestine-terrorist-by-remote-control (TIME, June 16), was sitting up after a gall-bladder operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Fields for Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Citizen Doctor | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny blood fluke which burrows under the skin of river bathers, causes fever, hives, bladder infection, sometimes cirrhosis of the liver. The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes. A single snail may produce 32,000 flukes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Egyptian Plague | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

After burrowing into a human victim, the flukes mature in the liver, cuddle up in pairs, migrate to small blood vessels in the bladder or large bowel wall, mate, lay eggs, start a new cycle. It begins when the eggs are discharged in urine or faeces, are picked up by the snails again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Egyptian Plague | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Ismail Sidky Pasha, back from London discussions (sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: To Darkest Africa | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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