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...John Hunter, who became Surgeon Extraordinary to King George III last January, dissected male and female rays to analyze "the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect." The two organs, on either side of the cranium and gills, are about 5 inches long and consist of more than 400 tiny vertical columns of fluid. Three large nerves connect the organs to the brain. Although Hunter is not sure how the shocks are created, he asserts that "the will of the animal does absolutely control the electric powers of its body...
...anomalies and curiosities of medicine unknown to the Guinness Book of World Records. Bobo Brazil, for example, the ever-popular champ, has a skull that is reputed to be four inches thick. He inflicts a torture known as the 'Coco-butt' upon his terrorized victims. By smashing his oversized cranium against theirs, he is able to shatter loose bits of bone which drift into their brain over succeeding months. The lucky ones become basket cases. Others bleed from their ears and lose all control over their bowel function...
...clambered through her window and taken refuge in her boudoir. Hoo-ha! What's more, H. Rodney Clark's Bluntschli is such a card, and Anne K. Ames's Raina such a flighty creature, that the Shavian prospect of sincere and kindly intercourse never dares rear its gentle graying cranium on stage during the next 90 minutes. What does appear is a shallow but lively confrontation between the bombastic Bulgarians and an unflappable Bluntschli, the production packaged appropriately in Scott Joplin ragtime and stage directions that divest the original of any subtlety of humor...
...college career and still is--perhaps a reason for his never starting a community along the lines of the one in his novel, Walden Two. After developing an aversion to Hamilton College("I was not good at sports and suffered acutely as...better players bounced basketballs off my cranium..."), he openly began to revolt as best he could...
Whether Holmes ever lived outside Watson's cranium is doubtful, especially as this bizarre tale of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution overtaxes the reader's suspension of disbelief. Apparently Watson lay in the fell grasp of senility when he delivered this blithering monologue to a secretary in an old-age home, and Nicholas Meyer distilled...