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...suits" to protect them from loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your legs. The centrifugal forces of a 500-mile-an-hour turn increase your weight seven to ten times. You contract your stomach, breathe in gasps...
...Streptomycin is by far the best therapeutic agent available for... this disease " Urinary Tract Infections (kidneys and bladder). Of 409 patients, some of whom had been ill for 20 years, streptomycin cured 171, improved...
...fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
Detroit's carrier can probably be cleansed of her infection, said Dr. Barone, by removal of the gall bladder, where typhoid germs lurk. (Another possibility: a drug called iodophthalein.) New York City's celebrated carrier, "Typhoid Mary" (Mary Mallon), stubbornly refused to have her gall bladder purged, spent most of her last 30 years either locked up or eluding police to take jobs as a cook. She infected some 51 people, and died in 1938 -of a stroke...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Libman, 73, master diagnostician, specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of once incurable subacute bacterial endocarditis, more widely known for his offhand feats of medical clairvoyance (he predicted Warren G. Harding's death after seeing him at a dinner party; muttered "enlarged gall bladder" after a first quick glance at Oscar Levant); after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. In accordance with his wish, an autopsy was performed...