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...will get special nursing, deli cate surgery, education to their full men tal and muscular capacity. When a man gets out (and the experts think that most will, eventually), his equipment-bed, wheelchair, braces - will go with...
...Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal Dutch Co. for the Working of Petroleum Wells...
...courage that sails into the domain of curative surgery. The art and genius of J. Marion Sims with the silver-wire suture made lacerated woman whole. The victim of vesicovaginal fistula was no longer a prisoner in her own house. She is rescued from her wretchedness by the most deli cate skill and the gentlest
...book tends rather to force itself upon the reader. One is led to wonder what other qualities noble or ignoble the unassuming volumes on our shelves share with the existing lords of creation. Have books feelings, sensibilities, all those little emotional refinements which make of life so deli cate an adventure? No one wants to hurt a book's feelings. Are they sensitive? Have they their petty vanities, their secret aspirations, disappointments...