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...treatment for 15 years, has used it for 11,000 treatments without fatal effect. Lately he spent seven weeks in the Lower California Military Zone, just over the border from the U.S. While in Lower California Dr. Perez Garcia cured General Juan Felipe Rico's wife of gall bladder trouble, gave about 155 treatments on 40 cases, including a woman paralyzed with tertiary syphilis. After four treatments she walked...
Reading the Body. The doctors tell in detail how, given two patients with severe pain over the stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond...
...Gout is almost exclusively a man's disease, cancer of the gall bladder almost exclusively a woman's. People who get diseases that are more frequent in the opposite sex are likely to have many of that sex's physical and mental characteristics. The doctors mean no insult by this-they say it is the gynic (female) factors in a man that make him a good physician...
...Enlargement of the prostate gland occurs in most men over 50 and about half of them have some prostate trouble. An estimated 17 to 20% of men past 50 develop prostatic cancer. This also happens to dogs and lions. The dangerous gland, situated at the lower part of the bladder next to the exit, rarely gives much warning (common first symptom: difficulty in urinating) until the cancer is beyond surgery...
Died. Kaname Wakasugi, 60, Japan's Commissioner General for the 1939-40 New York World's Fair; of a gall-bladder ailment; somewhere in Japan...