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Heart Specialist Dock noted that coughing and contracting the abdominal muscles during bowel movements "impose burdens analogous to those caused by lifting heavy objects . . . Less severe but more sustained circulatory stress is imposed by sexual intercourse . . . Pulse rate is nearly doubled, [the heart's] output per beat is increased nearly 50%, and systolic pressure rises about 30% even in orgasms induced by masturbation, with less emotional or physical stress. This circulatory effect is comparable to that caused by running up two or three flights of stairs, while in intercourse the effect may be two or three times more severe...
...with FORTUNE, LIFE and TIME), an occasional novelist (To My Father, The Death of Kings), a big man with a strong appetite for good living. This is his widow's story from the time he learned, in the fall of 1954, that he had cancer of the lower bowel until, less than four months later, he committed suicide, at 53, by slashing his wrists with a razor handed to him by his wife...
...comeuppance. During that time he "laid down a coherent program of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects." Besides, murder was "the accustomed fate of deposed monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty or not guilty, Richard demands-through Historian Kendall-a measure of sympathy. His predecessors were brutes. His successors were brutes. Richard, too, was just an average brute...
...basic text, Regional Ileitis, that cutting off the diseased ileum "is a sine qua non to the success of any operation." Less than two years ago, at a doctors' round table, New York Hospital Surgeon William F. Nickel Jr. said to Crohn: "One should never [join] small bowel to large bowel . . . without dividing the small bowel, because those patients invariably get into trouble in our experience. Is that yours?" Replied Dr. Crohn: "That is correct...
...cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago, 2,200. ¶When a small boy swallowed a nail which lodged in the jejunum (second part of the small bowel), Atlanta's Dr. Murdock Equen made him swallow a tiny but powerful Alnico permanent magnet attached to a string. When the magnet grabbed the nail, Dr. Equen pulled the string and slowly worked the nail up through the digestive tract and out the boy's mouth. In seven...