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...great, slender stems with tubular strands. Water thyme has slender pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
Died. Brigadier General Charles Lewis Potter, 64, Army engineer, president of the Mississippi River Commission, two months after his Army retirement; after a gall-bladder operation; at St. Louis...
...internal medicine as insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas-does...
...delvers opened the small gold sarcophagi and found, as they knew they would find, that one had contained TutankhAmen's liver & gall bladder, another, his lungs & heart, another, his stomach & large intestine, the fourth his small intestine. They were the young king's last relics, removed at his mummification...
Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...