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...unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen required by fish and other forms of marine animal and plant life, before sluggishly moving seaward on the outgoing tide...
...supplied a sudden flood of knowledge about the behavior of trap flowers. Their blossoms range from one-half inch to two feet in length. They lure insects to their traps by the unfloral smell that their osmophores give off during the "lure phase"; yet even the smells vary-from fecal-like, to cidery, to urine-like, to musky...
...also the bladder. This necessitates making an artificial bladder from a section of small bowel, or leading the ure ters into the colon, which then empties both urine and feces into a "wet colostomy" bag. After more conventional operations for rectal cancer that has not spread widely, only fecal matter passes through the "dry colostomy" opening in the abdominal wall, because the bladder and urethra are left in tact. Since no two patients' diseases are alike, Brunschwig operations vary in the number of organs and length of bowel removed...
Surgeons made an incision in Powell's abdomen, brought out part of the colon, and cut it halfway through. "From then on," said Powell, "fecal matter went no farther than this opening in my abdomen, and emptied into a pouch attached around my middle...
...family after grandma has moved in to help care for a younger generation. If grandfather is with her, he is not likely to have much to do with food handling. But grandma takes over in the kitchen. If she is careless about bathroom cleanliness (the bacilli are transmitted from fecal matter only through food and drink), she gives the youngsters an unwelcome and unexpected gift of typhoid. Their acute illnesses can be cured with chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). After this modern treatment so few become carriers, they create a negligible problem for the future. But grandma's long-standing carrier condition...