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...indirectly by common infectious diseases, injuries, poisons, and sometimes by the spread of cancers. Drs. Lloyd Freeman Craver and Cushman Davis Haagensen of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital have found cases of shingles unexpectedly associated with generalized cancer. They urged clinicians, when the cause of a case of shingles is obscure, to look for a hidden cancer of the lymphatic system...
...ripe olive, then rapidly spread, became an open sore. A year ago he had begun to hold his head back, his chin up, to ease the pain in his neck. Now he could not move his head forward. He suffered terrible pains. The muscles of his neck were, say Drs. Ellis Fischel & Louis H. Jorstad who made the report, "woody-hard in consistency. . . . Under local anesthesia a triangular piece of tissue, a quarter of an inch thick and measuring an inch on each side, was removed (from the back) for biopsy. . . . The removal of this tissue was comparable...
Insanity v. Sanity filled the final days of the trial. From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the time of the shooting but that he was quite sane now. Dr. Williams declared that Lieut. Massie's glands were responsible for his unbalanced condition, that he had been temporarily afflicted with "chemical insanity or shock amnesia." Both experts agreed that his troubles had been brought on by intense...
Theelin affects the female procreative apparatus. Two Parisians, Drs. Andre Girard and Georges Sandulesco, last week announced crystallization of two more female sex hormones with specific actions. Because these hormones came from the urine of pregnant mares, they were named equiline and hippuline...
Contagion. Vincent's angina is highly contagious. Kissing seems to be the commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more...