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...Colon countered that any such federal payment of doctors would involve undue government control over them...
William's difficulties probably started with diet, says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...
...found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental institutions, says Maine. The institutions are invariably short of doctors and nurses; patients rarely get any psychiatric care...
Caribbean ports from Colon to Guantanamo Bay will play host to Harvard Naval ROTC students on their cruise this summer, when at least 39 men will accompany naval task forces on trips of varying lengths in the West Indies...
...itinerary for the Sophomore cruise, which will last approximately eight weeks, covers most of the major Caribbean ports. Setting sail from Annapolis on June 21, the task force will travel south to Colon, Canal Zone, where it will arrive July...