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...Fever of Reality. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1859, called the camera "the mirror with a memory." Americans, more than any other people, have become used to seeing the world and themselves in that mirror-staring closely at birth and death, the torment of war and the pleasures of peace, the acts of history and nature, the faces of leaders and of nameless masses. Americans are wrapped in photographs ; in newspapers, magazines, movies, billboards, the camera shows them the microbe as big as a face, a face as big as a city block, an entire city as plainly as their...
...street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold chills which sent them shuddering away from reality...
...slacks belonged to little Eva Spiers, 14-year-old daughter of a Lancashire nail-maker. Five years ago, she had an attack of rheumatic fever. "Her little body was all twisted up," said her mother, Mrs. Ernest Spiers. "There were nights when I thought I would never get her straight...
...group for whom most can be done, and least is now being done, according to Putnam and Hood, are a majority of the brain-injury victims, i.e., those who have been crippled by such things as blows, encephalitis, or a sustained high fever in infancy. Their plight is often worse, in a way, than that of the mentally retarded, because they know they are different and yet cannot help their failures and seizures...
Finger in the Heart. In no area of surgery has the anesthesiologist played a more vital role than in operations inside the heart. Ten or 15 years ago, little or nothing could be done for the patient with a constricted mitral valve (usually the result of rheumatic fever). Then surgeons at .Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital devised a finger-tip knife for opening the valves. The trick was to do it without killing the patient...