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...lived for 65 years. Like the Princes of Spain, he is a hemophiliac. His blood does not clot. Death has been for him a leech against which he has ever been on guard. Last week he lowered his guard for the sake of a mortally risky operation on his bladder and prostate. Coincidentally he began to have his entire blood system washed out with blood from twelve one-time students of his English classes. Eventually he hopes-if Death does not parry precautions-to change his blood picture, to learn if drastic flushing is a definite cure for hemophilia...
...Meadowcroft, 78, longtime assistant and confidential secretary to the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), in West Orange, N. J.; Brand Whitlock, 62, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, of bronchitis; Cinemactress Patsy Ruth Miller, 26, in Hollywood...
...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
...tuberculosis, pneumonia or pleurisy. Actinomycosis, a fungus infection which causes abscesses, may simulate appendicitis. A mistake in diagnosis may result from the presence of colic of the bile or of the kidneys, inflammation of the kidneys, stricture of the 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...
...Austrian water ski is made of a bamboo frame about 8 ft. long, 2½ ft. wide. The frame is filled with a tapered rubber bladder topped at the centre with a boot-like rubber cylinder. The walker's foot and leg fit into the cylinder up to the hip. Fastened to the underside of the frame are two hollow cones. The broad hollow ends are directed backward and provide sufficient hydrodynamic resistance to keep the skis from sliding backward between steps. The water-walker must exert much effort to keep his legs from going apart and from under...