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Wrinkles (rugae) cover the entire lining of the stomach. They all run parallel to the long axis of the stomach from the cardiac end where fresh food comes in to the pyloric end where digested food goes out into the intestines. Pathologists notice that every ulcer or cancer of the stomach always distorts the neat parallelism of the wrinkles. But they notice it only after the patient is dead and the autopsist has done his work. If x-ray pictures had shown the irregular wrinkles, the doctor might have saved the patient before it was too late...
respiration, circulation, metabolism, acid-base balance, water balance, heat regulation, cardiac performance, excretion, blood gas transport, and subjective responses in rest and in work of varying intensity. Continuous observation will be made, but especially detailed programmes will be carried out at sea level, 5,000 feet, 11,000 feet, 14,500 feet, 17,500 feet, 19,500 feet, and the same stations coming down. As much as possible will be done at altitudes greater than 20,000 feet...
...week, in the private dining room on the fourth floor, Death came to Otto Kahn. He was sitting over his coffee with Partner Benjamin Buttenwieser. Suddenly he slumped forward. His cup rattled to the floor. Before a doctor could reach him the 67-year-old banker was dead of cardiac thrombosis...
Died. "Mom," 92, biggest female elephant in the U. S., property of Dr. Pierre A. ("Oom the Omnipotent") Bernard; of cardiac rheumatism; in Nyack, N. Y. Circus Romancer Courtney Ryley Cooper sped to Nyack to attend her last moments...
...lunch fund which amounts to some $1,500,000 annually. When Jewish holidays fall on school days, the schools lose $500,000 annually, New York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac, mentally slow. There are classes in Americanization, in vocations, by day and by night. East Side moppets who have never before seen a cornstalk may help till an East Side school-garden. From 1920 to 1930 New York opened new schools at the average rate of one every 13 days (there...