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...nourished for days until they grow large enough for the disease-causing microbes to be detectable. The careful placing and size of an electrical charge is the key to Peri-Start, a machine built on the principle of the cardiac pacemaker. It electronically stimulates the muscles of bladder and colon and controls elimination in a paralyzed patient. In the future, the same technique may well prove practical for other muscles...
...accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised in print that the President, in an unusually dour mood, had vetoed their request. The situation evoked memories of Ulysses S. Grant, who brooded for 18 months before al lowing...
...Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...
...variety of allergic or "serum sickness" reactions, and causes up to 300 U.S. deaths a year. Even the mildest of drug-induced difficulties, he added, should not be minimized, for the side effects are not limited to one generation. If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall-bladder X rays, for example, a baby that she bears several years later may have an abnormal level of iodine in the blood...
...society. "People don't see that making human life human is part of salvation," says Methodist Minister Tex Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. "They've got the idea that salvation is a kind of good feeling between your liver and your gall bladder." Long Beach Pastor Paul Woudenberg hoots that the typical renewal preacher "heads into a social program as an excuse for not doing his real job, which is preaching and taking care of his congregation...