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There are ample reasons for all the hand trouble, report Drs. Richard L. Sutton Jr. and Samuel Ayres Jr. The hands are more exposed to heat, cold, light, moisture, irritant chemicals, sensitizing chemicals and germs than any other part of the body. Moreover, an infection or poisoning of the whole body may affect the hands with especial severity. Finally, because they are the most used organs of touch, they are subject to psychosomatic disturbances. ("The hands are busy if the mind is busy . . . agitated if the mind is agitated...
...year-old patient lay in an up-to-date operating room in Lima, Peru, surrounded by sterile gadgets and the paraphernalia of modern anesthesia. At hand, to forestall infection, were ultramodern antibiotics. Flanking the patient were two of Peru's most distinguished surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grańa Reyes and Esteban Rocca. But their instruments were bronze chisels and saws made of obsidian (volcanic glass) which were 2,000 years old when Francisco Pizarro conquered Peru...
They called the result the Ministers' Clinic of Nebraska. Members paid $10 a couple per meeting, and some of them drove as much as 300 miles to get there. Drs. Young and Tompkins served without pay. And doctors and clerical couples decided that the experiment was a dramatic success...
...these meetings, Psychiatrist in Chief Oskar Diethelm is joined by two other senior psychiatrists, Drs. Thomas A. C.J Rennie and Richard N. Kohl, who are at the clinic full time and share the supervision of all patients. Also present are the resident psychiatrist, with more than three years' experience and training at the clinic; 13 assistant psychiatrists at various stages of three-to five-year courses as residents. Here an assistant psychiatrist is assigned to be the patient's personal physician during his stay, and the patient's daily routine is prescribed. He can be certain...
...patent, No. 2,206,634, was lost in the legal confusion that surrounds everything atomic. It did not pay off until last week, when the Atomic Energy Commission, after much hesitation, awarded $300,000 to the Italians and their associates. Besides Fermi, two of them, Drs. Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segre, are now atomic scientists in the U.S. The fourth, Dr. Edoardo Amaldi, is still in Rome. The fifth, Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, will have trouble collecting his. He vanished in Finland in 1950 and is now presumably working for the Russians...