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...closely held secret until the end of World War II, when the Allies captured Nazi stores. Releasing a flood of the body chemical acetylcholine, which sets off muscle contractions, nerve gases cause uncontrollable convulsions in their victims. By one scientist's account, according to Hersh, "The pupils, bladder and alimentary canal constrict, the penis erects, the tear and saliva glands secrete and the heart slows." The victim is generally asphyxiated...
...Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain in the National Parks System. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had a gall bladder operation earlier this month, is now recuperating at home, turning his convalescence "into a most enjoyable vacation...
There was also the problem of the bile ducts. The donor liver had come with its gall bladder and ducts attached. Rather than attempt a dangerously delicate joining of the common duct to the duodenum, Moore decided to attach the new gall bladder itself to the duodenum, allowing the bile to bypass the common duct. The entire operation took eight hours. Not until Tommy Gorence was sitting up and eating well, apparently making a good recovery, did the Brigham publicize the case. Tommy made good progress for four weeks, then ran into difficulties with a lung infection, a common complication...
Once seated at the table for a session, the senior members of either side cannot leave before the meeting is over without signifying a walkout. Since the meetings sometimes run as long as nine hours, the confrontation is known informally as "the battle of the bladder." Only the two senior members speak, and they do not speak to each other but through intermediaries, communicating only by glares. Everything is translated not only into English and Korean, but into Chinese as well; four Chinese delegates are present at almost every meeting, with Mao badges displayed on their tunics...
...Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., and Grace Hospital in Detroit. Of 67 appendicitis patients, only seven stayed in the hospital even as long as the average Norwalk patient. All 87 of his young single-hernia patients were sent home within two days of their operations. Of 72 gall-bladder convalescents, 59 were out in five days...