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What does this mean for oldsters' health? Purpose of the tables, said Dr. Master, is to show the tie-up between excess weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook...
...infantry school, Taylor was forbidden to get near food intended for others, found his employment card marked in warning red, could not get a job. Last month he agreed to the standard operation that too many typhoid carriers refuse (though it does not always work)-removal of the gall bladder. Last week, pronounced typhoid free, Taylor downed a few pints of bitter at the corner local, said: "I feel as if I'd come out of jail...
...being plugged into an electric outlet (an explosion hazard in the operating room), it gets its power from the pressure of tap water. This is converted by the reciprocating-engine principle into a pump action, giving pulsatile pressure in four Plexiglas chambers. In each of these is a rubber bladder corresponding to one of the heart's own chambers. The bladders are paired (like the auricles and ventricles) and they contract and expand in a rhythm like the heart's. In an additional chamber, corresponding to the lungs, the blood is oxygenated by the conventional film-on-screen...
...what fun he could have with a satiric vivisection of the medical profession. Unhappily, he decided to do the two plays in one. The unexpected result: the comedy makes the tragedy seem pretentious and high-flown, and the tragedy makes the comedy seem at times no better than common bladder farce. Besides, after 52 years on the boards, the situation and some of the characters are getting rickety...
...heroes honored. Three who suffered, willy-nilly, in the cause of surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...