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...Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy's large bowel up into his throat to meet it, and stitched them together. At the lower end, this piece of gut was joined to the stomach. The small bowel was joined to the remainder of the large bowel. Tommy's revamped digestive tract worked fine. His one problem: learning...
...weekend trip, the pilot will be preconditioned by eating a low-residue diet (no bulky leaf vegetables, peas, corn or beans, no fat). As Captain William Bligh noted 169 years ago after he was cast away by the Bounty mutineers, some of his lifeboat companions went weeks with no bowel movement, had no lasting ill effects. For a trip to the moon, the Air Force thinks it now has an airtight zipper-type fastening for pressure suits that will enable the pilot to function like a duck hunter opening the flap on his long-Johns; the fecal matter will...
...Navy Fireman Paul Basom swore that guards ordered him "to have a bowel movement in front of other prisoners. Then one man poured lighter fluid under me and lighted it. When it got hot I ran." Basom said he was later ordered by another guard to put out a burning cigarette with his bare feet...
...Illness. A mother's anxieties about various aspects of her child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...
...less than a minute died within a fortnight. Thus, last week, reported California Surgeon John T. McLaughlin, an industrial medical consultant. There were no marks on the victim's body, but "his insides were cooked ... A hole as big as a silver dollar was burned in his small bowel." Dr. McLaughlin has seen other, less severe cases, warns that high-powered radar microwaves (similar to those used in electronic stoves) can do serious damage at short range without proper safeguards by causing "intolerable" rises in tissue temperatures...